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May 28, 2024 · This would essentially leave the question of slavery up to the individual states and their state constitutions and sparked massive controversy both in Congress and out in the territories. However, the Senate voted to pass Douglas’s bill in what would become the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, sparking a violent uprising between proslavery and ...
1 day ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
1 day ago · The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...
3 days ago · Frederick Douglass The politicians of the 1850s were acting in a society in which the traditional restraints that suppressed sectional conflict in the 1820s and 1850s – the most important of which being the stability of the two-party system – were being eroded as this rapid extension of democracy went forward in the North and South. It was an era when the mass political party galvanized ...
May 23, 2024 · Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrator: Hammatt Billings: Country: United States: Language: English: Genre: Novel: Published: 1852 (two volumes) Publisher: John P. Jewett and Company, after serialization in The National Era beginning June 5, 1851: OCLC: 1077982310
1 day ago · 19th century. An 1835 illustration of power loom weaving, as part of the Industrial Revolution. The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval.
1 day ago · The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted for 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of Taiping-controlled Nanjing —which they had renamed "Tianjing"—in 1864.
