The Slave Revolt

Henry Clay led the nationalistic Jeffersonian economic agenda. This agenda was known as the American System (Holt, 1999). It included high protective tariffs to nourish American manufacturing, create a home market for American agricultural products, a national bank to provide a currency and federal subsidization of internal improvement projects to ease the movement of goods (Holt, 1999). These nationalistic Jeffersons would eventually push through Congress and the current President at the time (President Madison) would sign laws that affected two parts of their program. The Federalist Party diminished after 1815 and many former Federalists embraced the Republican Party.

Dan Lawler Fall – 2015 Eric Foner, the author of our textbook, “Give Me Liberty!” calls the Industrial Revolution, urbanization and accompanying economic expansion of American society in the early nineteenth century a “market revolution”. There are many significant changes and developments that make up this revolution, a few of them being the creation of canals, steamboats, roads and the cotton gin. Foner also describes how the revolution affected differently the north and the south. In the south, they were focused on agriculture. They were reliant on the production of cotton and required many slaves to make that happen.

The Atlantic Slave Trade by David Northup includes four essays that offer arguments on the cause of African slavery. “The first paper was written by Eric Williams, a historian who studies the economic view of African slavery; he argued that slavery was not born out of racism but rather a consequence of slavery”(Williams, 2). “The second paper in the book was written by David Eltis; he argued that slavery was not caused just by economics because it would have been more reasonable and cheaper to enslave Europeans”(Davis, 7). “The third essay was written by David Davis, he argues that slavery was caused by developments in the medieval Islamic world which reinforced African slavery”(Davis, 13). “The last essay written by Linda Heywood and John

The Effects of Slavery on Africa The Triangular Slave trade was a triangular trade between Europe, Africa, and North America spanning a period of approximately 3 centuries. This trade across this period of time had long lasting effects on its three ends that can be observed until today and perhaps to the distant future. It consisted of the trade of slaves, manufactured goods and guns, and raw materials between the 3 continents. Europe provided guns and other means of warfare in addition to manufactured goods to Africa, Africa in return provided their workforce to North America which provided raw materials to Europe for it to be manufactured. The trade was supposedly beneficial for the 3 sides, but only 2 sides benefited with the third being

One of the most prominent industries that was transformed by industrialization, in particular, was the textile industry. Before the revolution, textiles were created mostly in people’s homes with equipment and materials provided by merchants under what was known as the cottage system. However, being that most workers “set their own schedules,” a large number of “inefficiencies” in production would often result, urging the need for new innovations to increase productivity (“Industrial Revolution” para. 5). To solve this issue, what was known as the spinning jenny was invented by Englishman James Hargreaves around 1764; it was a machine that “enabled an individual” to produce “multiple spools of threads simultaneously,” helping to further increase production and require less human energy (“Industrial Revolution” para.

As Britain depended heavily on Russia and the East Country to procure hemp in the early eighteenth century, the government desired that the colonies in America would be new sources of hemp through the naval stores policy. Hemp was regarded as one of the important naval stores in the naval stores policy, and the government discussed American hemp production repeatedly in the 1710 in order to decrease the dependence on Russian hemp. In particular, the Navy desired the success of the production of American hemp. However, unlike in the case of American pitch and tar, hemp industry did not progress utterly in

The American Revolutionary War was a war fought from 1775-1783, also known as the American War of Independence, between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen colonies. The colonies wanted independence and free from British rule. In order to gain their independence the colonies had to fight for it. There were many events leading up to the revolutionary war but the Stamp Act and Sugar Act had its impact. These two acts are a part of what got the conflict started between Great Britain and America; The Sugar Act, was a law that imposed taxes on certain imports and the Stamp Act, is a law that levied new excise taxes.

In 1787, the Constitution was written to unite all of the states together. At this time, the Southern States were very agriculturally focused and the Northern States were very industrialized. There were some disagreements between the states regarding the Constitution and division began to take place in the United States. Slavery was a controversial topic at the time. Enslaving African Americans had been a problem since the early 17th century.

The Second Industrial Revolution, which peaked between 1870 and 1914, was aiming to expedite the extraction of the gold from the mines, railroads had to be laid to reach across the land to the ports for global trading (Engelman, Ryan). This made factories call in more and more workers, and in 1880, five million Americans were industrial employees. (Lutz, Alexandra) Compared to the First Industrial Revolution where only few laws or regulations existed for the workers, more labor laws were created during the Second Industrial Revolution, aiming to ensure the safety of the workers. A series of further Acts, which was regulated during 1860 and 1872, aimed to strengthen the safety provisions of the workers. The Act included the first regulation that legalized safeguards for health, life and limb (Wikipedia).

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, slavery was used in order to build our economy in our nation. But an invention known as the cotton gin changed the economy in the US so that slave owners can make more money by doing less. Because of the cotton gin invented in 1793, it revolutionized slavery and made everyone dependent on slaves and slavery (Slavery in

The indians, slaves, and women were hurt by Jacksonian Democracy. #8 What is the relationship between slavery and westward expansion? The relationship between the two would be direct. Every time Western territories wanted to be states, the discussion of slavery came up. The North wanted the new states to be free, while the South wanted the new states to be slave states.

The economy changed as well, due to the revolution, because of the war period there was respect for debt, taxes and agriculture. The direction for the development of economic growth was still a quarrel between the North and the South. A good example for the Northern view point on economic growth is Alexander Hamilton. Alexander advocated for the development of an economy based on industry with a central focus on urban growth. However, Anti-Federalists or, the Southern viewpoint, thought it best to have an agrarian society that contained large slave populations.