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- During the ...sectional crisis over creating new slave and free states, another secessionist movement began in South Carolina. Calhoun's famous March 4,... in Congress has been regarded as a major defense of the right of secession to protect the interests of a political minority.
- According to Garrison, only ...from the South could absolve Northerners of complicity in the sin of slavery. Years later, when Garrison vehemently condemned southern secessionists for committing 'treason' against the United States government, he faced widespread criticism for seemingly abandoning his earlier defense of the right of secession. He clarified, however, that he had never defended an unqualified right of a state to secede. Garrison argued that secession was justified only as a means to escape oppression, drawing parallels to the ...
- ..., in his "Declaration of the Causes of Secession," took a more direct approach to the defense of slavery. He listed the northern states' violation of the .., their personal liberty laws claiming that slavery was unjust, and the election of an antislavery Republican president as the reasons why South Carolina seceded, and he stated that the rest of the slave states should follow suit.
- An outbreak of smallpox caused the convention to relocate to Charleston, and on December..., the 169 delegates present voted unanimously to secede from the federal Union.
- Calhoun's ..., advocating for state interposition against federal tariffs, marked the state's first serious threat of secession from the Union.
- Through The Liberator, which circulated widely both in ... and the United States, Garrison soon achieved recognition as the most radical of American antislavery advocates.
- Immediatism, advocacy of immediate emancipation, condemned slavery as a ..., called for emancipation at the earliest possible moment, and proposed schemes for incorporating the freedmen into American society.
- In .. he founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society, the first immediatist society in the country, and in 1833 he helped organize the..., writing its Declaration of Sentiments and serving as its first corresponding secretary.
- William Lloyd Garrison American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (...), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.
- Noah Webster, “Preface,” An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828The historical concept of the American identity, as characterized in the excerpt, was most clearly distinguished from the identities of other nations by the
- Noah Webster, “Preface,” An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828The national identity described in the excerpt most strongly reflects the influence of which of the following?
- Noah Webster, “Preface,” An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations in the early 1800s?
- In ..., when the Corn Laws that protected British grain prices by imposing tariffs on imports of foreign grain were abolished, many farmers turned to....
- And although we tend to talk about urbanization and industrialization as twinned processes, much industrialization relied on rural populations for workers and needed access to rural forms of power such as...
- British cotton was an international industry, with all raw material imported and most cotton... exported. This could be an advantage; for example India, the jewel in the imperial crown, bought 23 percent of English cotton exports in 1850, and 31 percent in 1860. However, it could also meanvulnerability to global events: in the mid-1860s the ...caused a "cotton famine" by interrupting supplies of raw cotton.
- The English... became highly industrialized, but Ireland and the southeast of England remained largely agricultural, and the economy of greater London was based on ...
- From the 1880s hydraulically operated elevators (and, later, steel-framed construction) made ... with upper-floor offices possible, and these were erected in city centers all over the country.
- Agriculture grew until ..., but then went into a ... that - although it was dotted by a few bright spots - never reversed.
- The first railway lines had been laid in the 1820s, but in the... and 1860s railways became pervasive parts of the landscape, economy, and culture.Railways carried not only goods but information: the Post Office, founded in ..., sent letters by rail.
- As late as ...most consumer goods were still produced by hand in small workshops.