The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... During the colonial period, two economic systems were created and separated by free and slave labor. ... Slave labor drove the plantations of the South. The differences between the regions were small and insignificant during the colonial era. ... The social structure of the two regions was very different in the colonial period. ...
Some historian believe, that even since colonial times, America was working its way to a civil war. ... Without slaves the Plantation owners would not be able to maintain the same amount of profit, and so slavery was a part of southern culture. ... Without the use of slaves, the southern way of life would be destroyed, as white plantation owners had no other way to farm their crops and still remain profitable. ... A fourth issue which contributed to the start of an American Civil War was , ways of viewing the world. ... The separation caused by these issue would eventually cause the beginni...
The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The "giddy multitude" made up of blacks and un-happy freemen, fought the most-significant rebellion, in colonial America. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... Slave revolts scattered the plantations and elites used "landless whites" to put down slave revolts with force. The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...
The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The "giddy multitude" made up of blacks and un-happy freemen, fought the most-significant rebellion, in colonial America. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... Slave revolts scattered the plantations and elites used "landless whites" to put down slave revolts with force. The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...
The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. ... In the Colonial Era, Native Americans had a community with a rich culture that defines them. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ... Although the white men saw Native Americans a lot differently than themselves, this also happened later on during the Colonial Era with the white man's relationship to their slaves. ... ...
Margaret Brent became to be known as the nation's first lawyer and the first colonial woman who demanded the right to vote. ... Ann Hutchinson, who opposed Puritan authority, was the most famous dissident in early colonial history. ... Alternative methods such as hydropathy and homeopathy were popular among famous American women. ... The first African Americans were free. ... Husbands usually lived on another plantations and spouses spent only one day a week together. ...
The sectional division between the areas began in colonial times, largely resulting from geographical differences. ... Plantations brought in black slaves from Africa to provide most of the labor required for growing the crop. In time, other plantation crops such as cotton, sugar cane, indigo, and sugar beets were to thrive in the South. ... The North, however, was a cooler, rockier climate that would not support the development of plantations. ... This economy supported the growth of cities, although many lived in rural areas during the colonial period. ...
In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. ... But slavery was less profitable in the North, there economic activity centered on small farms and industries The southern plantation owners were not willing to follow in the north's footsteps because their income would decrease a considerable amount. ... Antislavery began in the colonial days in the United States. The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817. ... Pennsylvania Hall was the site in 1838 of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. ...
