Themes and Reasons

Slavery- Slavery was established almost everywhere and led to the Civil War.

Abolitionist Movement- people started striving higher law from the Constitution

The Missouri Compromise- this was when slavery started to spread into territories no one had claimed so people against slavery rushed into the new territories to claim it.

Nat Turner's Rebellion- started a rebellion that killed around sixty white men that led to him and fifty-five others to be tried and executed.

Lincoln's Election - the south hated him because of his stance on slavery

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There are countless numbers of themes exhibited in American History from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. One of the largest and most known is would be slavery. Slavery was used to strengthen early America. It was the main source of income, however not everyone agreed with this idea of slavery. These disagreements led to a huge compromise. It is now known as the Missouri Compromise. This required that for every slave state there had to be a free state. This worked great until the U.S. ran out of land to make separate and equal states. This led to the free and slave states fighting over Kansas. This disagreement among slavery would lead to another important theme in American history, war. The Civil war began after President Abraham Lincoln came into office. Lincoln was known and hated (by the south) for his views on slavery. This cause a huge disagreement. The Civil War essentially split the States, but they soon united again. Finally, Manifest Destiny was a movement among the American people that involved Americans moving and claiming new land. It was said that it was God's plan for them to take new lands. The reason this is significant, is because that it gained the land that makes up half of the U.S today.