The making of America: expansion, slavery and Louisiana purchase.

Question 1

what are the differences between north and south know as?

Answer 1

sectional differences.

Question 2

northern states: what was their economy based on and what did this mean in terms of slaves?

Answer 2

industrial. depended less on labour.

Question 3

n. states: when did slavery end but what still remained?

Answer 3

1789. racist attitudes.

Question 4

n. states: what type of man believed what about profits?

Answer 4

business men. slave holders could make profits easily as they didn’t have to pay workers/ give them any rights.

Question 5

n. states: what type of religious people spoke out against slavery?

Answer 5

quakers and Methodists.

Question 6

n. states: what grew in terms of the religious groups and after what?

Answer 6

numbers and influence grew after a great religious revival began around 1790.

Question 7

n. states: what was the common belief in terms of religion and slavery?

Answer 7

god had made all men to be free.

Question 8

n. states: what were people unhappy about with the government regarding slave holders?

Answer 8

giving in to the demands of a few powerful southern slave holders. resentment grew.

Question 9

s. states: what did the economy depend on and when did most of the wealth come from?

Answer 9

depended on slaves. growing plants on plantations such as rice, cotton, tobacco.

Question 10

s. states: what happened during the 18th and 19th century in relation to demand for plantation crops?

Answer 10

grew.

Question 11

s. states: what did religious groups preach?

Answer 11

god had made black people to serve white people.

Question 12

s. states: what did the men who drew up the constitution fear would happen politically if they removed slavery?

Answer 12

bankrupt southern slave holders. lead to them rebelling and going their separate way.

Question 13

economy: when did white american colonists enslave black people from africa and why?

Answer 13

17th century. to produce cash crops.

Question 14

religious: what was slavery doing to peoples understanding of the their Christian faith?

Answer 14

dividing.

Question 15

political: why did slavery cause problems when the constitution was set up in 1787?

Answer 15

many founding fathers were slaveholders.

Question 16

political: what did every state have the right to do?

Answer 16

elect senators and representatives to congress and to vote in presidential elections.

Question 17

political: why did some states have a bigger voting power and how could that be beneficial?

Answer 17

depends on population size.
increase the population, bigger the chance the state could influence the politics of the country.

Question 18

political: slaves couldn’t vote but what happens as they are counted as part of the population of the state?

Answer 18

state with large number of slaves could gain a lot of influence despite having a small number of white voters.

Question 19

political: instead of removing slave numbers as part of the population what did they know class as instead and why was this done?

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

what are the three categories to tell the difference between the north and south ?

Answer 20

economy, religious, political.

Question 21

what were the three key stages that meant slavery grew in the US from 1793-1820?

Answer 21

new opportunities and jefferson’s compromise on slavery, cotton gin.

Question 22

jeff comp: in 1788 what did jefferson have to decide?

Answer 22

if slavery should spread into land they’d gained from british in 1783.

Question 23

jeff comp: what did the north want the government to do- what were the split opinions, and what did the south think?

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

jeff comp: how did the law contradict the removal of slaves ?

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

jeff comp: what was made as a result to the contradicting law that prevented the removal of slaves?

Answer 25

slavery banned in n.w territory, allowed in s.w territory.

Question 26

jeff comp: new cotton plantations opened in the deep south. what lands are these and what did it stimulate and what did that lead to ?

Answer 26

west of Georgia and Carolinas.
slavery. by mid 1790’s just as big as cotton gin.

Question 27

jeff comp: where did slave traders buy slaves from and then what did they do to transport them?

Answer 27

old states of Maryland, north Carolina, Delaware, Virginia.
force marched for months for sale to plantation owners in deep south.

Question 28

jeff comp: what were forced marches and what were the profits like for those who decided to sell slaves?

Answer 28

brutal. many arrived sick and malnourished.
high profits often over $1000.

Question 29

jeff comp: what happened to slaves due to how much profit was made on them?

Answer 29

people even began to kidnap free black people in northern states to sell into slavery.

Question 30

cotton gin: who made this new machine and when?

Answer 30

eli whitney. 1793.

Question 31

cotton gin: why was it created and what did some of the process involve?

Answer 31

preparing raw cotton took a lot of time and work. cotton fibres had to be separated from cotton seeds by hand.

Question 32

cotton gin: what did it allow cotton plantation owners to do?

Answer 32

grow more seed. filled variety of cotton able to survive deep heat.

Question 33

cotton gin: what did some banks in the north state and britain do?

Answer 33

speeded up the expansion of new cotton fields and slavery by loaning.