HIST 173 Ch 10.txt

Human property

• Some Slave + Some Free States
• Kept Balance
• 1819: 22 states (11 slave + 11 free)

• Bad soil
• More import and export (took crops from south and exported)
• More factory-based in manufacturing

• Cash crops
• Smaller cities
• Didn�t urbanize as quickly as the north
• Sent cotton to north

• Ban of importation of slaves
• Does not stop domestic slave trade
• Spurs domestic slave trade
• People trading between colonies
• Because slaves free to north?harsh slave codes:
• Did not allow them to be citizens
• Own property

• Large part of southern economy
• People saw themselves as legit business men only in slaves

• Crop suitable to slave economies
• More labor
• Increased demand of slave

• Worst circumstances for slaves
• Bad work environment
• Malaria on the coast
• Highest rate of disease or death

• Not everyone owns slaves
• Too poor to own
• Complicit in supporting economy

• Places were as complicit in slave economy
• Luxury goods in Philly and New York

• Less-developed
• More dependent on the north than vice-versa

Violent slave uprising and rebellions

• Former slave
• Wrote abolitionists literature

• Give the slave states domination in any purely sectional disputes
• Territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave.

Prohibiting the importation of slaves into the Old Northwest and into the federal territories of the Old Southwest

Barred all blacks and persons of mixed race from entering the state unless they could prove they are free

The number of electors for each state was based on the number of senators and representatives

Three-Fifths of the slave population counted.

Louisiana entered as a slave state, its slavery already established in the territory