The North traded with everyone, while the South traded primarily with England. ... The price of tobacco had plummeted, and planters were freeing slaves because of the high cost of feeding, housing and clothing them. ... This explosion in the growth of the cotton market rejuvenated the slave trade. This time, though, the slave trade was not between the U.S. and Africa, but instead between the Old South, and the New South. ... The compromise said that free and slave states had to be admitted in pairs to retain equality in the Senate, and that no further slave s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even though they all agreed on the structure of the new government, the delegates argued about the issues concerning representation, slavery, and trade. ... We had fought the Revolutionary War to be free of the English, but slavery had always been legal during that time. ... "The constitution protected existing slaves but envisaged the ending of the slave trade by 1808 (Barker 43)". The Northern shipping industry could still make a lot of money with the continuing slave trade. ... So the norths economy depended on more trade than farming. ...

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" Native Americans quickly learned just how valuable these African American slaves were and began selling and trading them amongst their own tribes. ... The Native American slave trade was only in existence until about 1730, after the trade led to a series of deadly wars among the tribes (Halliburton). ... Tribal members began buying or trading African American slaves for field work, domestic work, and various trades (Cox). ... After all the warring, tension, and rivalries had simmered down, and soon after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the Cherokee Nation freed each and every ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This act traded Maine as a free slave state so that Missouri would be allowed to own slaves which gave slaves in the selected northern states their freedom. In 1821, New York gave freed slaves the right to vote, and 6 years later declared slavery illegal. ... In that same year, slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. ... Even though the document stated the slaves would be freed, it was limited in many ways. ... She informs the reader on, "The Slaves' New Year's Day" (Jacobs 15) which is on January 1 of every new year where slaves are sold and traded. ...

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In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. ... Its goal was to send the free slaves to Liberia, Africa. ... Abolitionists became important to the Free Soil Party in 1848. ... This helped slaves that were trying to get to the free states or to Canada. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Tallmadge Amendment would have ceased the import of slaves into Missouri and progressively freed those already in oppression there. ... Slavery itself noticeably stretched its finger into the Mid-Atlantic's free states in the post-war ages. ... So did the increasing practice of snatching free African Americans from the North into Southern oppression. ... If snatching and the slave trade endangered Northerners' chosen remoteness from slavery in the Mid-Atlantic, numerous North westerners vexed that slavery itself would extend into their district. ... Slavery appeared less essentia...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Cherokee dominated the Southern Appalachians by means of a loose confederacy held together by ties of language, kinship, trade, and custom" (Drake 7). ... When the Indians first came into contact with the Europeans, they quickly learned the benefits of fur trading. ... From these encounters, the Europeans began exploring the treacherous territories and carved out trade routes through the rough wilderness. ... Although the fur trading was the pinnacle of prosperity for the Indians, it also brought a heavy price with it. ... Harrad wrote, "free to return home once more as a citizen of t...

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According to historian, Gene Dattel, Slave-produced cotton brought commercial ascendancy to New York City, cotton was the driving force for territorial expansion in the South and fostered trade between Europe and the United States. ... Serious tensions between the free and salve states evolved from different developing economic systems in The United States. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... In Kansas Territory, years of pro and anti-slavery violence and political conflict erupted; the Congressional House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas as a free state in early 1860, but its admission in the Senate was delayed until January 1861, after the 1860 elections when Southern senators began to ...

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As a result, the North's economy came to depend more on trade and industry than on agriculture. ... The Compromise allowed slavery to continue where it desired, but the trading of slaves was prohibited in Washington DC. ... The Dred Scott Decision, where a slave claimed freedom because he had lived in a free state and territory for some time, was denied his freedom. ... Lincoln won all electoral votes of every free state except New Jersey, which awarded him four of its seven votes. ... It is ironic that only a few days before Fort Sumter was attacked, Douglass had agreed to make a trip to...

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• Grade Level: High School

Frederick Douglass Born 1818 (?) in Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 in Washington D.C. Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. Never knowing his mother or even the identity of his father, he was born a slave and escaped to the north when he was twenty years...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the many views of Lincoln, and one which I agree with, is that Lincoln would have traded the freedom of slaves for the quick healing of the wounds between the North and South. ... I believe that this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... He goes on in that same speech to state that the nation will eventually go entirely slave or free. ...

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Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... In Kansas Territory, years of pro and anti-slavery violence and political conflict erupted; the Congressional House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas as a free state in early 1860, but its admission in the Senate was delayed until January 1861, after the 1860 elections when Southern senators began to...

• Word Count: 7511
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• Grade Level: High School

There were a number of trade routes along the rivers, which led to a heavy reliance on imports and exports. ... These types of conditions gave rise to what we call the "task" system, where each slave would be given a job at the beginning of the day and once they finished their job they were free to stop work. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. ... It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods (Civil). ... They argued that the slaves were better cared for then the free factory workers in the North. ... The Northerners goals were free public education, better salaries and working conditions for workers, rights for women, and better treatment for criminals. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ...

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• Grade Level: High School