Many factors contributed to the faliure of slave conspiracies and revolts.  Many of these revolts failed because a few certain slaves would tell their plantation owners about the revolt.  Slaves were treated very bad and had a hard time rebelling because of the slave code.  The slave code restricted the slaves to meet together so a rebellion was often hard to set up. 
          Denmark Vesey is a clear example of a slave who failed his attempt at a rebellion and his slave conspiracy.  Denmark Vesey was a slave who bought his freedom after winning a lottery.  Vesey was a succesful ex-slave who knew how to write and read. then eventually started his own business.  He was given a golden opportunity to go to Africa where he could be a ‘free man.’  Yet even though he had his chance, he didn’t grasp it.  This was because his wife and children where still enslaved and he hated slavery.  Whites had been harasing the black churches.  Eventually the church that he went to was closed down and he became mad.   He decided to rebel.  Versey’s attack was a difficult attack, attacking seven points of the city and caputring weapons for their use.  Everything was ready to go, until a slave, who was asked to recruit, told his master about the revolt.  A while later, 30 blacks where hung including Denmark Vesey himself. 
          Nat Turner’s Rebellion was a poorly planned attack yet it was one of the bloodiest slave revolts ever.  Nat Turner, was a young man who had set high expectations for himself. When he finally figured out that he was not going to be more than antyhing but a filed worker, he became angry. On Febuary 1931 an eclipse occured and Nat interrupted it as a message from God, ordering him to lead a revolt.  A revolt was to occur on July 4th but it never happened.  So a quick revolt with 7 slaves was put together.  This revolt ended up with 60 slaves joing up from his group after the killing of thier masters.  Many slaves are thought that their would glady revolt but many slaves did not help or aid in the revolt until a gun was at their heads.  This conspiracy is one that is uncancy. 
        Gabriel Prosser was a strong commanding person.  Gabriel had been taught a skill at an early age unlike many slaves.  He was a blacksmith.  White merchants could control the raw materials for these skilled slaves thus making the prices lower.  Meaning that the slaves would earn less and the masters would still get the same.  This was enough to make Prosser revolt.  He planned to recruit up to 10,000 slaves to destroy the whites.  The revolt ended even before it started.  Two slaves betrayed the plan, and told their plantation owner.  The slaves were captured and exceuted.  Prosser himself escaped and was later caught on a ship.  He was turned in for a $300 dollar reward set by  Monroe. 
         The conspricay is why would slaves turn their own kind in?  These revolts could hae been succesful onesl but always a certain slaves would turn and end the revolt.  This uncanny conspricay doesn’t fit the fact that many slaves were treated bad and wanted freedom. 
        During armed revolts, you were on your own to get food and you had a good chance of dying.  Using the passive method for instance faking sick doing a lousy job, or you wrecked things on the plantation.  The extreme passive slaves were the ones who chopped off a body part so they would become lame and could not do any work, but you were still treated as just another slaves.  The most efficient way to be a slave was to be mildly passive. 
 
 

           By 1860 about 1.3 million people had immigrated into America.  Immigration to the United States reached its peak between 1850 and 1855. 
          Two counties dominated American Immigration, they were Ireland and Germany.  Irish immigrants totaled to 1.9 million people.  Most of the Irish immigrants came to America because in the mid 1840's there was a potato famine which choked the main food supply for many Irish people.  German industrialization, left many traditional artisans without jobs.  These jobs less artixans are what made up most of the 1.5 million Germans immigrants that came to the United States. 
          The emigration from Europe was consisted push and pull factors.  A push factor is what makes you want to leave and a pull factor is what makes you want to go.  In the big cities many people were dying from being to crowded, living in your own excrement is not healthy.  In Ireland, at the time they were having a potato drought.  In Russia the revolution was beginning.  In America was a rich and prosperous nation.  Land and opportunity.When the people attended these meetings talked about church activities. They led prayer groups, taught Sunday school, and supported missionary activities. 
           Charles Finney and Peter Cartwright's mettings attracted middle class people, mostly women with servants to so the work for them so they could come to these meetings.  It was uplifting and a great time for those who took part in these meetings.