How did the different social and economic characteristics of the northern and southern colonies later play a crucial, and tragic, role in American history? The northern and southern colonies had various social and economic differences, all of which eventually contributed to a tragic event in American history. The northern colonies were composed of individuals that mainly came from the eastern part of England. ... The southern colonies" major industry was agriculture due to their long growing season. ... The various sectional differences in the northern and southern colonies, eventually cre...

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This slave labor eventually became the economic backbone of the Southern colonies in view of the fact that they were tremendously dependent and also exceedingly motivated to become an economic monopoly in the world. ... This, soon enough, led to a considerably diverse population and disparate lifestyles between the Northern and Southern colonies. ... Democrats were mostly in the southern states because they were pro-slavery. ... Slavery had played an important role in the development of the colonies. ... Without the use of slaves and slave labor, the southern colonies would not have been...

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Colonies such as Virginia and Maryland mainly depended on the cultivation of tobacco, while southern colonies cultivated a variety of crops such as rice, beans, and maize. ... This not only affected the economic institution in the colonies in a positive manner (more labor to cultivate crops that were later traded among the market) but also changed society in the colonies. ... This allowed the amount of goods that the colonies were putting into the market to increase due to the increase in labor force (therefore helping the colonies economically) and changed the social aspect of the colonies as...

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1776 brought trials and tribulations to the Colonies. ... The southern states, in general, were against independence. ... Britain had thousands more soldiers than the colonies, and they were better equipped and prepared than the colonist volunteer soldiers. ... The southern states simply wanted to preserve a way of life. ... Wilson of Pennsylvania had to decide whether or not the colonies would become independent from Britain. ...

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By 1861, seven Southern States had seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America. ... A major discount to abolitionist was that the most persisted efforts were coming from the northern states but offset by wide support in the southern states. Attempts to sanction bodies of authority were rejected by the 13 colonies. ... Liberal ideals grew in the 13 Colonies with the awarding of declared freedoms, while on the other hand slavery is still in full swing. ... Even with the pronounced abolition of slavery, the southern farmer managed to keep the system functional. ...

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The issue of slavery has been debated between the North and South since before the colonization of the thirteen colonies. ... The debate over the economic advantages of slavery in the South has raged ever since the first slaves began working in the cotton fields of the Southern States. ... Southern slaves were viewed in economic terms of labor to capital. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... (Abbott) Throughout the rest of time before the Civil War, slavery remained in the Southern states. ...

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The equally significant combination of economic, geographic, and social factors encouraged the growth of slavery in the southern colonies between 1607 and 1705. ... It was each of these three factors that contributed to and that encouraged the growth of slavery in the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775. ...

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Douglass, in becoming a freed slave and abolitionist, used religion as a basis for his arguments to emancipate slaves still bound down by the shackles of the southern white man. ... Douglass labels the Christianity of the slave colonies as fraud. ... Douglass continues in the "Appendix" evaluating the clear contradiction in the religion of the colonies, "We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members . . . ... Douglass believes it is his responsibility to testify against the misnomer of the religion of the slave colonies being a ...

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Either way the Southern people were forced to pay more because of the efforts of Northern businessmen. ... The Southern States were losing political power. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern States felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington D.C. ... Some Southern States wanted to break away from the United States of America and govern themselves. ... Yet slavery had been a part of the Southern way of life for well over 200 years. ...

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From the beginning of the colonies independence form Britain there was an obvious difference between the North and South. ... The controversy over slavery only continues until it amounted to such a dilemma that southern states began to succeed. ...

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Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as a technical word in trade, law and politics. ... Slavery at that time was mainly confined to eastern seaboard of the Americas near the Atlantic Ocean (the Carolinas and Georgia),and the slave population was not great enough in numbers to reproduce its numbers naturally, so in turn more slaves had to be "brought" over to the Americas to continue the labor intensive trade of the southern cotton industry. By the fall of the American Revolution in 1790, twenty percent of all living in the thirteen colonies was of African descent and the West Indies blac...

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The slaves on boarding the slave ships from their homeland, Africa, did not do so willingly but forcefully as they saw it as a long and tortuous journey towards a life perpetual bondage in colonies. ... Despite the hazards, Tubman made an estimated 19 rescue trips to free Southern slaves. ... They did anything and everything to resist and escape this life of perpetual bondage in colonies. ...

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The colonies needed to settle the issue of voting and representation. The southern states wanted their slaves to be counted towards their total population because this would give them greater representation in Congress. ... The King was responsible for maintaining and protecting slavery as an institution in the colonies. Naturally, objection and possible secession from the southern states forced the removal of that paragraph. ...

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Of those who survived the voyage to the New World, one-third landed in Brazil (60-70%) or the sugar colonies of the Caribbean (Mitnz: Digital History). ... For a long period of time, it was widely anticipated that southern slavery was harsher and crueler than slavery in Latin America, but it was definitely the other way around. ... In remarkable contrast, southern slaves had an equal sex ratio, a high birthrate, and a predominantly American-born population. ...

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Most went to the West Indies or Latin American colonies. About five percent went to the colonies in America. ... The Africans remaining on board were sold to the colonies. ... But the southern colonists paid little attention to this and the emphasis was placed on training the slaves for plantation work. ...

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Slavery in the U.S, which began when African slaves were brought to America, had spread throughout the colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. ... He believed freeing slaves would lead to serious consequence like famine, he claimed, "If an immediate emancipation of negroes were to take place, the whole southern country would be visited with an immediate famine....

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The West Indies exerted powerful influence on development of slavery in the mainland colonies. ... Colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina claimed some rights and privileges as English men and woman, while they denied those rights and privileges to Native Americans and African slaves. Slavery was king in the South and southern states produced mostly cotton, while also producing tobacco, rice and sugar. ...

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By the time of 1861 there were 34 states, in which seven southern slave states had declared their separation from the States and formed what was at the time, the Confederate States of America. ... Plantations originated from Brazil and were used to exploit the agricultural potential of their and other new colonies. ...

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Indian colonies had been settled in western lands for years, and Jackson wished for said land to be his. ... He was from the South and knew southern economics but he also had to keep the rest of the countries needs in the mind. ... The Northern and Southern politics would be clashing through the Civil war, almost tearing America apart permanently. ...

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