HIST 2055 Lecture : Reading Notes
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Restricted sales to only wealthy farmers (barrier to entry: created territories that would eventually become the states of. Ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan and wisconsin: also prohibited slavery and earmarked funds for schools, specified that congress would appoint a governor and judges for each new territory until population reached. That was terrible for farmers and everyone. If you couldn"t pay creditors threatened lawsuits. But states with strong commercial traditions insisted on controlling their own tariffs: to protect their artisans from low-cost imports and assist their merchants. Most were monied men that were educated. Delegates decided to elect washington as presiding officer. Since this plan was so controversial, william. People from big states didn"t like this obviously. After bitter debate, delegates from the populous states reluctantly accepted this great. But to make the northerners happy, they never said the word slavery : southerners wanted their slaves to count as a number in the population to give the south more power.
