Apush Dbq Research Paper

The United States gained its independence in 1776. After that, the United States struggled with numerous tariffs and compromises that can be arguing to be the cause of the civil war. With the gruesome acts of slavery in the south, it show that the north and south have been fed up and was begin to tear apart. The rise of political parties contributed to numerous political beliefs and ideas. Even if the partier names stay the same for a long period of time. Their issue, principle, support belief and ideas change over time. The Death of the federalist parties’ gave rise to the Democratic Party with Andrew Jackson as president. Andrew Jackson believed in a small central government, states’ rights, opposed the national banks and wanted

South Carolina nullifying the tariff and threatening to secede from the United States in which congress passes the force act which enforce the federal tariffs. The disappointment of the tariff of 1828 and 1832 lead Jackson to create the tariff of 1833 which reduced the previewer’s tax from 20%. The tariffs showed the growing tension between the north and south that lead up to the civil war. One of the most controversial compromise of the 19th century United States was the Missouri compromise which admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave ban slavery on the Louisiana territory. The compromise were made to balance the power of slave and Free states. It was disparaged by southerner who said that congress could make law regarding slavery. The North on the other hand denounce it as an expansion of slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 repealed the Missouri compromise in favor of popular sovereignty. Three year later, the Supreme Court declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional because it violated the Fifth Amendment. The Missouri compromise has did nothing but cause major suffer to many people especially slave who are affect the most. The Missouri compromise, the tariffs, and slavery