HIS 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Colonization Society, Missouri Compromise, Nonpartisanism
9 May 2016
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Property rights were placed ahead of personal liberties of black americans. Jefferson saw this purchase as a great empire of liberty and he believed that it would make available more lands for settlers who were pushing west, but it actually entrenched the slave. 1791-1861 (slave republic): the united states had 50 years of slave owning presidents who were people that wrote, adjudicated, and enforced the laws. The lords of the loom and lords of the lash demonstrated the intertwined components present in american society at that time (cotton and slavery). 1820-1860: 2 million slaves were sold and two-thirds of them moved from the upper. South/eastern seaboard to the deep south which was the territory beside georgia that was drawn from the louisiana purchase. Under the presidency of james monroe (1816-1824), old animosities were forgotten and the. United states experienced a period of political quietude and prosperity.
