The French and Indian War was a main contributing factor to the American Revolution, its aftermath altered the British-American relations tremendously. After the war, Great Britain was able to “intervene” in the colonies by restricting expansion with imposing acts, levying taxes unfairly along with colonial resistance, all shaped up the British-American relationship from 1754-1776. The Proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This restricting expansion closed off the frontier for colonial enlargement. The east coast was becoming overcrowded, and many colonists wanted to move west for a better life.…
The pure logistics of maintaining a cash crop style of economy required a labor force that had never been known anywhere north of Maryland. Although there was both slavery and indentured servitude north of Maryland at that time, it was nowhere near the prevalence as it was in the Southern colonies. For this simple reason, African slaves were sent to the southern colonies in vast numbers, and this practice would continue for many decades to come. Slavery and indentured servitude became the backbone of how the economy of the Southern colonies prospered.…
In Doc 4, “Many Northerners viewed slavery as wrong. Abolitionists wanted to end slavery and some helped slaves escape to the North and Canada. The Southerner's believed that they were stealing their property.” The south needed slaves for economic reasons. If they don’t have slaves, they won’t have any income coming in.…
They wanted to slave to fill in spots of the white men because they didn't have enough people for war, They thought of the Africans as people for work not freedom.…
In the Northern States slavery was allowed but it wasn’t as vital to the North’s economy as it was to the South’s. Slaves that lived in the North were often domestic servants to small farmers and rural ironworks. The populations of the slaves themselves were very small, because Northern farms were not large-scale enterprises that focused on producing one cash crop; they had required fewer slaves to do the work and were generally smaller. The Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states had legally permitted slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; but a few decades before the Civil war, many of the slaves were emancipated through a series of state legislature statutes; that ended up creating the Northern Free States and the Southern slave…
The South wanted the free slave labor. This way the South could make more money to either buy more slaves, more land, and be able to pay their taxes. The South also depended on…
The French and Indian war was a time when Britain and France had colonies in North America. The war started in 1754 and ended in 1763, it all started when the British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley because they wanted to trade with the Native Americans that lived there. While the French was also trading with indians, to protect their trade they built forts. George washington lead an army against the french, and he lost the battle. Then Britain declared war on France, and the war was named the French and Indian war for the control of the valley.…
They saw that the more they had authority over what they were growing through the use of their slaves, the more self benefits they would have economically. In my opinion, this makes sense because the south was especially pro-slavery and didn’t like being dominated by richer owners that received many benefits through their lands, and they had to do make a living for themselves with the only crop that was out of the way beneficial to them as owners, cash crops such as cotton. As a result, the thirst to have power of their production which meant over their slaves aswell because the more slaves that would be carrying out tedious work, the better it would do economically for the owners. As a result, people became more obsessed with the idea to gain an economic advancement, continue slavery as an emerging activity, and furthermore reach their own concept of manifest destiny. The threat upon doing well economically and continuing slavery was by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance that abolished slavery in the Northwest territories, and through international trade which ended in 1808.…
In general, slavery played a major part in American colonization and became the standard for all colonies and the African American slaves were heavily populated in the Northern and Southern colonies because of the Southern colonies had tobacco plantations and they needed laborers to work their land so, they can make a profit. In short, the Atlantic Slave Trade was established by the Spanish colonists in the Sixteenth century to help solve a need and because they were the most experience sea mariners during that time (Robin, Kelley, Lewis, 2005, p. 7). Therefore, slaves became the cheapest laborers in the colonies and this forced labor continue for centuries and some people of the colonies began to believe that this was the way of life. The…
To be a successful society back then having several slaves was a must. Many people did not want to do the labor themselves and slaves, not only fixed this problem, but made their Masters feel very powerful. Slaves were usually Africans that had made it across the Triangular Trade route all the way to the colonies. They were sent on large ships that each had specific names. Once they made it to the colonies they were trading with the settlers that paid money for slaves.…
Throughout the 1600’s, there was a desperate need for a work force in the British North American colonies. Native Americans were dying from European diseases and were even running away to escape slavery. Also, the amount of indentured servants coming to America was decreasing and they became unreliable. This eventually led the colonists to bringing the first slaves to Virginia in 1619 because they realized another source was needed. Soon enough, slavery had a major impact on the social attitudes, racial ideologies, economic factors, and legislative acts because it changed the lives of people in society including slaves as well.…
Slaves were necessary for southern states because they served the southern way of life, these beliefs caused a bigger rift between the north and south. Economics of slavery, political control, and moral issues were the central issues that dived the north…
The North had factors such as smaller and faster rivers, which provided more power to the cities, which greatly to contributed to their rapidly growing industries. The North couldn’t do some things that the South could, such as grow several different crops, but they could develop machinery that the South couldn’t. However, the South’s geography played a part in several different positives and negatives of the settles areas: land and weather made it easier to grow crops, harder to create more industrial products, such as machinery and currency, and the South was generally made up of plantations that cultivated common crops, which explains why slavery was so popular. Most slaves were illiterate, uneducated, and thanks to the slave-owners and racist citizens – ignorant. They couldn’t have done the work that was popular in the North, so they were assigned to busy work, growing and picking supplies for the South to use for trade and supplies.…
When forced labor began, the colonists experimented with other groups of people, both Native American Indians and Europeans, as slaves before settling on the imported Africans as their main source of forced labor. It was not until the 1680s that Africans began to be exploited as slaves. Due to the growing population within the colonies, a greater number of slaves and indentured…
Both European nations needed slaves to work in their new conquered lands. As the France and English empires expanded into the New World, there was a greater need for slaves. England did…