What is the significance of abolition?
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My answer: Abolition is significance because it is the movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas.
Abolition is the elimination of slavery in this country. Think about the significance of no slaves to the plantation owners and about the freedom to the slaves themselves.
I like your answer. It also lead to the civil war.
Abolition is significant because it is the movement to eliminate slavery in America?
The civil war was not directly associated with slavery. It was about State sovereignty vs Federal sovereignty. It was not until 1863 that slavery was introduced as a war issue.
Originally, the South saw the federal government as intrusive of State rights, very similar to the stuff you hear now on death penalties, gun rights, voting, and of course we heard it during the founding of the modern Republican part in 1964 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
The North saw the the South as rebels who were bad guys in eery way, and was determined to reduce their power in the Congress (see the great compromise, and the compromise that led to each state getting two senators). During the 1850's, the abolitionists fueled this fire: The South saw them as lawbreakers (compare to the recent Republican presidential candidates declaring illegal immigrants from Mexico as "illegals", "felons", Law breakers.
We often see the evil in others, and add a few made up evils to boater our arguments. Remember the weapons of mass destruction President Bush used as a pretext to go into Iraq? Sometimes we go to war over these made up beliefs.
Originally, the South saw the federal government as intrusive of State rights, very similar to the stuff you hear now on death penalties, gun rights, voting, and of course we heard it during the founding of the modern Republican part in 1964 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
The North saw the the South as rebels who were bad guys in eery way, and was determined to reduce their power in the Congress (see the great compromise, and the compromise that led to each state getting two senators). During the 1850's, the abolitionists fueled this fire: The South saw them as lawbreakers (compare to the recent Republican presidential candidates declaring illegal immigrants from Mexico as "illegals", "felons", Law breakers.
We often see the evil in others, and add a few made up evils to boater our arguments. Remember the weapons of mass destruction President Bush used as a pretext to go into Iraq? Sometimes we go to war over these made up beliefs.