When a taxpayer lives in more than one residence during the year, the determination of which residence is the principal residence depends on the facts and circumstances. Factors to consider in making this determination include the amount of time the taxpayer spends at each residence during the year, the proximity of each residence to the taxpayer’s employment, the principal place of abode of the taxpayer’s family, and the taxpayer’s mailing address for bills and correspondence among other things. 2. [LO 1] What are the ownership and use requirements a taxpayer must meet to qualify for the exclusion of the gain on the sale of a residence? Ownership test: The taxpayer must have owned the property for a total of two or more years during the five-year period ending on the date of the sale.
Morally, America was affected by the citizens’ personal feelings on slavery on slavery and how the citizens handled those emotions. Economically, America was affected by the South losing slave labor, causing them to lose profit because of abolitionists and African Americans. Thus, America was affected by slavery politically, morally, and economically which helped cause the civil war. Slavery was a major issue in America in the 1800’s and
It was all a plot to dehumanise us, to allow our oppressors to rationalise their actions, and reduced us slaves to animal property- as implied by the term “ chattel slavery. " This made our masters perceive us as inhuman property, and made us perceive ourselves as inhuman property as well. I still wonder, why must the southern states of America’s economy revolve around agriculture and slavery? Even after the industrial revolutions impact on the Northern states, why must the Southern state appear oblivious to the urbanisation. Was it because Thomas Jefferson heavily idealised agrarian farming, or is it impudence?
Was Slavery worse than Serfdom: By John M. Carlin There are a great many likenesses in the overall terms of service when analyzing that of the established African slave shipped to the Americas versus that of the Russian serf. I am now confronting the question, “Was slavery worse than serfdom?”… The answer does not come as easily as it seems that it should--- especially after committing to extensive research on both Russian serfdom and slavery in the Americas. However, it seems most relevant to look at the process of placement into serfdom / slavery, the entitlements that the landowners / slave owners had over the people who worked their lands, the differences in obligations, and the average day-to-day lives of these two groups bound into servitude—in order to lean to a particular side of which one was “worse” than the other. In this paper, I will briefly examine the transition of the peasant class of Russia into serfdom and the transition of the native African peoples who were captured and sold into slavery. I will then compare aspects of life experience between these two groups once they were established into their destinies prior to the abolishment of the serfdom system by Tsar Alexander II in 1861 and the abolishment of slavery in the United States four years later.
De’Ja Moore African-American Slave Trade 25 January 2012 11:00-11:50 De’ja Moore The African slave trade was made to dehumanize and demeaned the black man but I can’t figure out why people believe it was so harsh. Although I may have not been able to live in such harsh conditions but at the same this slave trade makes me who I am today. Although I don’t know where from, I am a decedent of an African slave that was once in slavery. I do believe that slavery was harsh and unimaginable but why should we only focus on the negative. The Europeans must had felt some type of superior to the Africans because why else would you want to dehumanize a person.
This act was passed by the US Congress in 1850 as part of the compromise of 1850. This act was on of the most controversial factors of the 1850 compromise and heightened the North’s fear of a slave power conspiracy. It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture to be returned to their masters and that citizens and officials form free states had to cooperate in this act. Bounties were often put on escaped slaves heads to help capture them. Oftentimes, free slaves were captured in free states because of this act and resold or returned to original masters.
Southern states believed that their way of life was being infringed, meaning that slavery was an important institution for their mainly agricultural based economy. The infringement of their way of life was what really caused the succession of the Confederate states and the Civil War. It has been said that the Civil War is the second American Revolution. In many ways, this statement is accurate. The American Revolution was fought because colonists felt the tyrannical government of Great Britain was abusing their authority, and directly affecting their way of life and happiness.
American Slavery in Comparative Perspective Sarah Rackliff No matter where you are in the world, being a slave is a terrible experience. The idea of slavery is wrong, and cannot be justified in any way. During the time of slaves, one third of the 10-15 million Africans sent to America landed in Brazil instead. Although slavery has always been cruel, there has been some debate over where the living conditions were better. In South America slaves had rights that slaves in the United States did not, however, the manner in which the slaves in South America were forced to live was much worse than the slaves in the U.S.
Slavery in Early American Society, a Remembering Many topics of American history raise debate and controversy. From the taking of land from the native to election processes, and even terrorism, most of these can be viewed from many political and moral viewpoints as wrong, necessary, immoral etc… Most of these seem to pale in comparison to the ideology of slavery in our history. Whether thought of in modern society as wrong from a moral perspective, curtailment of human rights, slavery existed for reasons of the time and abolished some time later for other reasons that are surprising to some. From the emergence of written history we see evidence of slavery, in one form or another. The most ancient civilizations--ancient Mesopotamia, Old Kingdom
Reparation Reparation for slavery is a proposal that there should be some type of compensation provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States. This is in consideration of the uncompensated labor their ancestors had to perform over the centuries. This proposal has been proposed in many different forms in ways relating to independence. This idea is still a highly controversy and there is idea of how it can be implemented. Some countries would like this reparation due to their loss of population as well.