The U.S. Civil War

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This paper explains that, even with the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the leaders of America knew that there was a dividing line between the states that wanted slavery and those that did not. The author points out that the Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820, which was the agreement between the two groups of pro-slavery and anti-slavery leaders, was the rule for governing of slavery in the Western Territories, but, in the long run, it did not solve the issue of slavery. The paper concludes that 360,000 men were dead on the Union side and 260,000 were dead on the Confederate side, but the Union continued.

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"All the forces in the country put their own hand into the slavery question and the Supreme Court, which had a majority of Southern justices, tried its own hand at it. The case that it selected for the solution was the Dred Scott case. He was the slave of a US army doctor and was shifted to the free state of Illinois and the Territory of Wisconsin. Wisconsin was a free area under the Missouri Compromise. The Supreme Court gave a proslavery decision and against the effort of Dred Scott to seek freedom. It said that blacks did not have the rights to be citizens of United States and due to that reason; the case should not have come into the Supreme Court."

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