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

=The Growth of Slavery in the 1800's=

Find a map of 1854 showing slave states (grey), free states (red), and U.S. territories (green) with Kansas at the center at __ [|MAP of 1854]For a timeline of slavery check of the following link__ [] The Union gained new territories in 1820, causing fights in congress about the spread of slavery. After much debate Congress agreed upon The Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) which managed slavery in the western territories by prohibiting or stopping slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory and accepting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Slavery spread to Arkansas in 1836 when they joined the Union as a slave state. Michigan joined the Union next in 1837 as a free state. The new territory that was gained from the Mexican war caused problems in Congress dung the late 1840s. California wanted to join the Union as a free state while new territories wanted to become states (New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah). Ironically, Washington, D.C. was not only allowed slavery but contained the largest slave market in North America. The arguments was once again met with an agreement called the Compromise of 1850. The controversial bill admitted California as a free state, left the territories possibly applying for statehood (New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah) to be decided by vote, got rid of the slave trade in D.C. but allowing slavery in the Union's capitol and passed the Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act made the national government and U.S. Citizens responsible for returning runaway slaves back South. The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854 and divided the region along the 40th parallel and giving both Kansas and Nebraska a vote to choose to enter the Union as a slave or free state. This would cause "bleeding Kansas" and much chaos as people rushed in to persuade the states to become slave or free. -Alexis P. The invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in 1793 caused slavery to grow. The cotton gin was a machine that separated cotton from its seeds. Click [|here_] to see an animated webpage of the cotton gin. The cotton gin made cotton a profitable crop and boosted the South's economy. Now that cotton was not as labor intensive and time consuming, more people rushed to cotton agriculture. This caused a 70% increase in slavey over a span of 10 years. The demand for slaves in the cotton field increased; hence, the mass amount of slave trade separated many black families. There was also an increased threat of free blacks in the north being enslaved. In addition, slavery started to spreading west causing conflict in Congress. New slave states joining the Union caused slavery to grow and resulted an upset in Congress. -Alexis P.
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The Cotton gin caused the number of enslaved Africans in the United States rose sharply—it reached almost 4 million just before the Civil War. Once the Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney, it increased cotton production substantially. Cleaning 50 pounds a day, whereas a slave could only clean one pound a day. The cotton gin was initially meant to decrease slavery but it really increased the amount of slaves, and the price of one. As cotton production increased each year, the price of an agricultural slave increased along with it. In the 1830s, slave migration in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas increased from 530,404 to 943,881. The congress did not do anything to stop slavery. Congress stopped slave trade but slavery was not stopped until after the civil war. As slavery continued to expand more people began opposing slavery too. The South wanted to keep slavery and the North wanted to abolish it. This conflict added to the growing tensions leading to the Civil War. -Maahum M. http://slavery1800s.glogster.com/glog/ http://davidparksiscool.glogster.com/growth-of-slavery/
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