The making of America: expansion, slavery and Louisiana purchase. Flashcards
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what are the differences between north and south know as?
sectional differences.
northern states: what was their economy based on and what did this mean in terms of slaves?
industrial. depended less on labour.
n. states: when did slavery end but what still remained?
- racist attitudes.
n. states: what type of man believed what about profits?
business men. slave holders could make profits easily as they didn’t have to pay workers/ give them any rights.
n. states: what type of religious people spoke out against slavery?
quakers and Methodists.
n. states: what grew in terms of the religious groups and after what?
numbers and influence grew after a great religious revival began around 1790.
n. states: what was the common belief in terms of religion and slavery?
god had made all men to be free.
n. states: what were people unhappy about with the government regarding slave holders?
giving in to the demands of a few powerful southern slave holders. resentment grew.
s. states: what did the economy depend on and when did most of the wealth come from?
depended on slaves. growing plants on plantations such as rice, cotton, tobacco.
s. states: what happened during the 18th and 19th century in relation to demand for plantation crops?
grew.
s. states: what did religious groups preach?
god had made black people to serve white people.
s. states: what did the men who drew up the constitution fear would happen politically if they removed slavery?
bankrupt southern slave holders. lead to them rebelling and going their separate way.
economy: when did white american colonists enslave black people from africa and why?
17th century. to produce cash crops.
religious: what was slavery doing to peoples understanding of the their Christian faith?
dividing.
political: why did slavery cause problems when the constitution was set up in 1787?
many founding fathers were slaveholders.
political: what did every state have the right to do?
elect senators and representatives to congress and to vote in presidential elections.
political: why did some states have a bigger voting power and how could that be beneficial?
depends on population size.
increase the population, bigger the chance the state could influence the politics of the country.
political: slaves couldn’t vote but what happens as they are counted as part of the population of the state?
state with large number of slaves could gain a lot of influence despite having a small number of white voters.
political: instead of removing slave numbers as part of the population what did they know class as instead and why was this done?
3/5 ths compromise.
slaves counted as 3/5 ths of a person in population count. make the north happier and kept south content so they wouldn’t rebel or break away.
what are the three categories to tell the difference between the north and south ?
economy, religious, political.
what were the three key stages that meant slavery grew in the US from 1793-1820?
new opportunities and jefferson’s compromise on slavery, cotton gin.
jeff comp: in 1788 what did jefferson have to decide?
if slavery should spread into land they’d gained from british in 1783.
jeff comp: what did the north want the government to do- what were the split opinions, and what did the south think?
ban slavery completely. some wanted slaves to be restricted to states where it already existed so it would die as it grew out.
allowed to spread into new land.
jeff comp: how did the law contradict the removal of slaves ?
constitution said government must never take any persons property unless it had broken the law. law said enslaved people were the property of their holders and the south argued that the government couldn’t legally ban slavery.
