american history help please...?

Question

Would you happen to know any good links to finding info on:
morril tariff
crittendon compromise
harpers ferry (1859)
lincoln vs.douglas
the alabama
N.Y.C draft riots

prefferably short passages please and no wikipedia..
thanks in advance

Answer 1

I corrected a few misspellings for you. Make sure you pick up on that!

I have given you a couple of paragraphs on each topic and one source. For several of these topics, a short paragraph is really not sufficient. This should get you started, but you should do some additional research on each topic to fully understand it.

1. Morrill Tariff
Justin Morrill, Representative from Vermont, gained approval for a sharply increased tariff measure on March 2, 1861, two days before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. Little opposition had been raised against the proposal, given that seven Southern states had seceded. The South had vainly, and probably accurately, argued that they paid a major portion of the tariff burden, but the revenue generated from the duties was spent overwhelmingly in the North.

The Morrill Tariff of 1861, an abrupt departure from the earlier Walker Tariff, was signed into law as one of the last acts of the outgoing president, James Buchanan. Other wartime tariff measures would bring the average rate to about 47 percent by war’s end—approximately the same level as the Tariff of Abominations in 1828. A reversal in policy would not occur until the relatively mild reform tariffs of the Reconstruction era.

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h975.html

2. Crittenden Compromise
The Crittenden Compromise was perhaps the last-ditch effort to resolve the secession crisis of 1860-61 by political negotiation. Authored by Kentucky Senator John Crittenden (whose two sons would become generals on opposite sides of the Civil War) it was an attempt to resolve the crisis by addressing the concerns that led the states of the Lower South to contemplate secession. As such, it gives a window into what the politicians of the day thought the cause of the crisis to be.

The Compromise, as offered on December 18, 1860, consisted of a preamble, six (proposed) constitutional amendments, and four (proposed) Congressional resolutions. The text given here is taken from a photocopy of the Congressional Globe for December 18, 1860.

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/critten.html

3. Harpers Ferry (1859)
John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

4. Lincoln Vs.Douglas
The debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln leave no doubt. Far from settling the issue, the Supreme Court’s decision to lift the ban on slavery in the territories has fanned the fire.

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw05_12052.html

5. The Alabama
CSS Alabama, a 1050-ton screw steam sloop of war, was built at Birkenhead, England, for the Confederate Navy. After leaving England in the guise of a merchant ship, she rendezvoused at sea with supply ships, was outfitted as a combatant and placed in commission on 24 August 1862. Commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama cruised in the North Atlantic and West Indies during the rest of 1862, capturing over two-dozen Union merchant ships, of which all but a few were burned. Among those released was the mail steamer Ariel, taken off Cuba on 7 December with hundreds of passengers on board.

Alabama began the new year by sinking USS Hatteras near Galveston, Texas, on 11 January 1863. She then moved into the South Atlantic, stopped at Cape Town in August, and went on to the East Indies, seizing nearly 40 more merchantmen during the year, destroying the majority and doing immense damage to the seaborne trade of the United States.

The Confederate cruiser called at Singapore in December 1863, but soon was back at sea to continue her commerce raiding. However, Alabama was increasingly in need of an overhaul and only captured a few ships in 1864. On 11 June of that year, Captain Semmes brought her to Cherbourg, France, for repairs. The Union steam sloop Kearsarge soon arrived off the port, and, on 19 June the Alabama steamed out to do battle. In an hour of intense combat, she was reduced to a sinking wreck by the Kearsarge's guns. As Alabama disappeared beneath the surface, her surviving crewmen were rescued by the victorious Federal warship and by the English yacht Deerhound. Her wreck was located by the French Navy in the 1980s.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/alabama.htm

6. N.Y.C Draft Riots
"The nation is at this time in a state of Revolution, North, South, East, and West," wrote the Washington Times during the often violent protests that occurred after Abraham Lincoln issued the March 3, 1863, Enrollment Act of Conscription. Although demonstrations took place in many Northern cities, the riots that broke out in New York City were both the most violent and the most publicized.
With a large and powerful Democratic party operating in the city, a dramatic show of dissent had been long in the making. The state's popular governor, Democrat Horatio Seymour, openly despised Lincoln and his policies. In addition, the Enrollment Act shocked a population already tired of the two-year-old war.
By the time the names of the first draftees were drawn in New York City on July 11, reports about the carnage of Gettysburg had been published in city papers. Lincoln's call for 300,000 more young men to fight a seemingly endless war frightened even those who supported the Union cause. Moreover, the Enrollment Act contained several exemptions, including the payment of a "commutation fee" that allowed wealthier and more influential citizens to buy their way out of service.
Perhaps no group was more resentful of these inequities than the Irish immigrants populating the slums of northeastern cities. Poor and more than a little prejudiced against blacks-with whom they were both unfamiliar and forced to compete for the lowest-paying jobs-the Irish in New York objected to fighting on their behalf.
On Sunday, June 12, the names of the draftees drawn the day before by the Provost Marshall were published in newspapers. Within hours, groups of irate citizens, many of them Irish immigrants, banded together across the city. Eventually numbering some 50,000 people, the mob terrorized neighborhoods on the East Side of New York for three days looting scores of stores. Blacks were the targets of most attacks on citizens; several lynchings and beatings occurred. In addition, a black church and orphanage were burned to the ground.
All in all, the mob caused more than $1.5 million of damage. The number killed or wounded during the riot is unknown, but estimates range from two dozen to nearly 100. Eventually, Lincoln deployed combat troops from the Federal Army of the Potomac to restore order; they remained encamped around the city for several weeks. In the end, the draft raised only about 150,000 troops throughout the North, about three-quarters of them substitutes, amounting to just one-fifth of the total Union force.
Source: The Civil War Society's "Encyclopedia of the Civil War"

http://www.civilwarhome.com/draftriots.htm

Answer 2

Harper's Ferry 1959? On October 16, John Brown, who had spent the past several months hiding out at a farm in nearby Maryland, led a raid on the Federal Arsenal there. Some members of his group were slaves or former slaves; others were white friends and relatives of his. He hoped that his attack would set off a widespread slave uprising and be the beginning of the end of slavery in the country. He had earlier approached Frederick Douglass about joining him, but Douglass had wisely seen the undertaking as the act of treason that it was and refused to have any part of it. Ironically, the first person killed in the raid was a "free person of color," Heywood Shepherd (unsure of the spelling)--a monument to him stands near the corner of Shenandoah and Potomac Streets. Federal troops were quickly called in; Brown and his men took refuge in the local fire station (a small brick building sitll standing, near the confluence of the Shenandoah and the Potomac); most of his party were captured or killed; and Brown and at least one other man, a former employee of Frederick Douglass named Shields Green, were hanged a few weeks later in Charles Town, the county seat of the county Harper's Ferry is in.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The first place is in the back of your textbook -- the glossary! Generally there will be a few sentences AND the page number where you can get more information.

Barring that, you can Google each term. Then it would be up to you to select the passages you need -- but then, it's YOUR assignment!

Answer 5

Wiki would probably be a good starting point for you to get a general idea what each topic is about. Usually they have a list of references linked up at the end of each entry. Think of wiki as the "cliff notes" and the references as the actual "sources."