Essay How Did Regional Differences Influence The Development Of The United States

Question : Taking into account slavery and economic distinctions among people, how,if at all, did regional difference influence the development of the United States between the colonial period and the 1830s ? During the American Revolution slavery was a National Institution, even though the numbers of slaves were the worked and lived in every colony. However, before the U.S Constitution was formalized states in the North were abolishing slavery outright or passing laws that would provide gradual emancipation. In essence, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 came into action. The Northwest was an act passed by congress to ensure new states were admitted to the union from the territory, and listed a billon rights guaranteed in the territory. This in essence barred slavery from the new territories of that period, so rather than quickly, slavery would only have existed in the southern states and become that region’s “peculiar institution”. This essay will give the distinctions of the North and Southern states taking into consideration slavery and the economic influence that played a part in the development of the United Sates between the colonial period and the early nineteenth century. As discussed in class, between the first federal census in the late 1700s and the eve of the Civil war the population of slaves in the united states …show more content…
A low percentage of slaves were actually domestic servants, working in a planter’s main house as cooks, nursemaids and coachmen. An even lower percent of slaves worked as laborers or as craftsmen. It was rare that slaves would become mill or factory workers, but a mass percent of slaves were field hands, picking cotton, rice, sugar cane and tobacco. The occupational distribution for slaves reflected the nature of the economy for the South. A region that was agricultural and rural with very little industrial and urbanization compared to the