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Analyze the ways in which controversy over the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to the coming of the civil war.
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Confine your answer to the period of 1845 to 1861.
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At the end of the day, it really boiled down to very different views regarding slavery in different regions, how the north viewed slavery versus how the south viewed slavery at that time in history was very, very different.
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So the term transcendentalism is an idea that people live in harmony with nature.
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Within our society, i mean, we still within our society today have different groups of people that view things very, very differently.
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And really, this wasn't any different than either.
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We had different groups in different regions and even different groups within the same regions that held different beliefs.
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And this fundamentally caused conflicts, and it really caused conflicts over the idea of the concept of slavery, and whether or not slavery was acceptable.
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The quakers saw slaves as their christian brothers and sisters.
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The north wanted an abolish to end slavery in the nation and say that men were created equal.
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The ideology of slavery was horrible and wrong.
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We know this today.
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Many knew it then as well.
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But the south disagreed.
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So the ideology of slavery was fundamentally wrong.
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It was unethical.
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It was inhumane.
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It was awful.
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We know all these things, especially today.
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And again, many people knew and acknowledged it now, and that's why there was this conflict.
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Because the south disagreed with that.
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And they wanted to keep slavery...
