There were both economic and political issues involved in the decision of Southern states to secede. The Supreme court’s decision in Dred Scott’s case spread the detonants starting in the strengthened Northern opposition to slavery, the internal divisions of Democratic Party and the reinforcement of the Republican Party which won elections with Lincoln leading them. Southern states gave their own interpretation to the supreme court’s decision and gave passage to the Kansas-Nebraska act, permitting every state to accept slavery or not . An important economic consequence was the beginning of the “Panic of 1857” crisis which started with railroads and big Northern bank collapses due to uncertainly slavery policies.
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The early movement was inspired in the conception of just society, deriving from the ricardian labor, theory of value and from the republican ideals of the american revolution.
The most notable the national labor union, was the knight of labor,to improve the conditions of workers, abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and political reforms including the graduated income tax.
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
