The+Growth+of+Slavery+in+the+1800s

**__Growth of Slavery in the 1800's__** In t he early 1800's, slavery was declining. The business of the slave trade had made less money and has not been doing well. Slavey mainly expanded to the south and the west. The states that outlawed slavery were Rhode Island, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Oregon, California and Illinois. [|Click here to learn more about the Innovation of Cotton Gin] This is a great video describing what and how the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. This invention made cotton easier the get the seeds out and became a product with a lot of value. This expanded slavery to grow more cotton and to produce more cotton with the cotton gin. At the same time, the Industrial Revolution, which made textile manufacturing a large-scale operation, vastly increased the demand for raw cotton. Opening new lands in the west expanded the need of slavery. Sugar cane, another labor-intensive crop also helped to slavery's expansion in the south. By 1830 the state was supplying the nation with about half its sugar supply. Finally, tobacco growers moved westward, taking slavery with them. -Ian The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery in the Northwest Territory. As late as 1808, this was when the international slave trade was abolished, many southerners thought that slavery would come to an end soon. This thought was false though because the south then became much more dependent on slavery than they did in 1790. In 1818 when Illinois was added as a free state, 10 states allowed slavery, 11 states didnt allow slavery. But then when Alabama became a slave state and that balanced the number of states being free or slave states. In 1819 Missouri (which had 10,000) tried to enter the union . "Northerners rallied to oppose Missouri’s entry except as a free state, and a storm of protest swept the country. Missouri became a slave state at the same time Maine became a free state. Congress banned slavery from land of the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri’s southern boundary. [|Click here to learn more about slave and free states and different compromises] The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state; voters in New Mexico and Utah territories would decide whether they would be slave or free upon applying for statehood and also Washington D.C. banned slave trade." As said in learnnc.com and the Missourri compromise. -Ian Also in 1850, A Fugitive Slave Act was passed in order to bring run away slaves back to wherever they ran away. This expanded the enforcement of slavery. Even during the Civil War, the Fugitive Slave Acts were used to to bring back blacks that tried to escape to the border states. "The acts were eventually repealed, but not until June of 1864 In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, dividing the region along the 40th parallel, with Kansas to the south and Nebraska to the north, and providing both territories the right to vote on whether to be slave or free. This act repealed Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850." As said in the website of msnbc.com, The Expansion of Slavery 1800-1850 All this led up to the civil war. During the Civil War the purpose changed to slavery because of the Emancipation Proclomation. [|Click here to learn about some different compromises] Opinions__** A lot of different opinions and a lot of arguments began about the category of Slavery. In the North there were the Northern Abolitionists.These were the Northern Radicals. This groups opinions were to get rid of slavery every where in the nation, there is nothing good about slavery and it should be the countries first priority to get rid of it. They thought that all men are created equal, Africans did not ask to come here and they were taken by force. They did not want to just sit by and watch as these people suffered. They wanted freedom for the slaves. People in the North also had opinions that fit into the category of the Northern Free Soilers. The Northern Free Soilers wanted to stop the spread of slavery into new territories of the south, but did not oppose slavery existing in the south. Those were two groups in the north but most people in the north were Northern Moderates. Northern Moderates did not oppose slavery in the south nor do they wish to stop its spread, unless people in the new territory oppose the institution. They believe that the people of each new state should be able to determine the issues by popular sovereignty, or a vote of the people. This group is also referred to the Northern Unionists. -Ian
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Now the groups in the south. The Southern Radicals were called the Southern Rebels. The Southern Rebels believe that slavery should exist everywhere in the nation, and the Southern Rebels will go to drastic measures to ensure the institution remains in the south and spreads all the way to the west. Some people refer to this group as the "Fire Eaters". Other groups in the south was known as the Southern Realists. The Southern Realists support slavery as well, but they are willing to compromise in order to end possible problems that will arise. Some Southerns fell under the Southern Rebels and Realists but many Southerns were Southern Moderates. Southern Moderates believe that popular sovereignty should determine if slavery expands in the nation. They want the nation to stay together is their main opinion. -Ian