POL203Y5 Lecture Notes - Missouri Compromise, Cotton Gin, Topeka, Kansas
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The protections that governments secure on behalf of citizens: distinct from civil liberties. The framers had avoided con ict over slaves in the early years of the republic. How: the constitution prohibited the regulation of the slave trade, in 1807, a new law prohibited the importation of slaves, this was not vigorously opposed in the south. Slaves were considered property, denied others the rights to vote,compromise made at founding. Don"t have the ability or will to abolish slavery. At the time of revolution idnt have moral thought and contradiction on another. Only till 1807, slavery but cant import, not opposed by south. Not fundamentally essential to the colonies in the south due to the economy. Until the creation of the cotton gin, tool gets around the problem of getting seeds out, 1830 3/4 million produced, 1850 2. 85 million produced, 50 pounds of cotton in one day.
