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NUMBER ONE: First tell me about John Brown. Who was he? What does he have to do with Kansas/Nebraska & Bleeding Kansas? What was Harper’s Ferry? Do you think he accomplished his ultimate goal of ending slaver? Why or why not?(1 paragraph) John Brown was a white man who opposed slavery so much that he killed lots of slave owners in order to free their slaves. For Kansas Nebraska Act, he popularized the idea of anti-slavery in the two said states, thus making a divide that caused the people to vote on slavery through popular soveigernity. For Bleeding Kansas, John Brown popularized conflict amongst people because he was the first person to make conflicts about slavery which caused more conflict and bloodshed which was bleeding Kansas. Harper’s ferry was John Brown’s last stand at freeing slaves. He wanted to infiltrate an arms house and give arms to slaves for freedom. It ended horribly and John brown died. I think John Brown helped slavery get abolished by being one of the main causes of the civil war. John Brown’s radical approach to freeing slaves caught so much attention that people realized slaves needed to be freed and thus the civil war began. NUMBER TWO: Explain the difference in how Lincoln viewed the issue of slavery compared to Stephen Douglass. Which approach or position do you find yourself in agreement with? Why? Hint: This last part of the question is about the idea of states rights not if you agree with slavery. (1 paragraph) Stephen Douglas believed that each state should have the right to slavery within their borders only f the people voted for slavery in popular soveirgnity. Lincoln believed that slavery should either be omnipresent or gone altogether. The position I find I agree with most is Lincoln’s because if slavery was omnipresent or gone the Union would be kept together which was the primary purpose of Lincoln’s abolitionist movement. I don’t agree with Douglas’ position because it gives too much power to the states, an action that has proven itself to be harmful. When slavery was only present in the Southern states, an idea Douglas would support because of popular sovereignty, Northern state’s rights would be abused when because used violence against slaveholders ie; Bloody Kansas. Using Lincoln’s idea of omnipresence or presence, state’s rights would never become an issue when amendments 13-15 would be passed. These amendments basically ended the idea of popular sovereignty when they made slavery illegal and pointed out that blacks are equal to whites. Thus, state’s rights became less and slavery became less when amendments 13-15 were passed. NUMBER THREE: What is the significance of the attack on Fort Sumter? Do you think Lincoln was responsible for provoking the war? Why or why not? (1 paragraph) The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter was significant because it marked the beginning of the civil war. The attack on Fort Sumter began the civil war because it was the first major conflict between Confederates and Unionists. Although Lincoln did not directly cause the civil war, he indirectly sparked up a war when he sent the supply ship to Fort Sumter. Lincoln indirectly took advantage of the Confederacy when he sent the ship, but he never could be directly to blame for the attack on Fort Sumter which started the Civil War. NUMBER FOUR: What was the Emancipation Proclamation? To what degree was the Emancipation Proclamation an act of justice? Warranted by the Constitution? A military necessity? Please address all three. (1 paragraph) The Emancipation Proclamation was an act that abolished slavery in the whole of the U.S. Although it abolished slavery, when Northerners passed this act slavery continued to exist in slave states because those states no longer considered themselves part of the Union and therefore not subject to the rulings of the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation was sort of an act of justice because the proclamation invoked the judgment of mankind and God’s judgment when it forced everyone to believe if or not this abuse of blacks was justified. The Emancipation Proclamation was warranted by the Constitution very much because under the Constitution “all men are created equal” (like Lincoln argued) thus making Emancipation justified because it followed the words of the Constitution. Most importantly, The Emancipation Proclamation was a military necessity because it gave the Union more soldiers who were former slaves. When the Union gained more military power, this meant that they could easily enforce their ideas on the Confederacy using violence, thus making their ideas more prevalent.