HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Monroe Doctrine, Arkansas Territory, Protestantism
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Expansion of the frontier region, to a settle incorporated region which led to the hatred to the. Rapid development of the internal slave trade. Steam power- easily go upstream rivers and connected the american south economy to the north which started the internal slave trade showed that the north would be free states. Free labor- didn"t need the massive slave populations for the crops, like the southerns did, 1810 all northern states had abolished slavery or in the process of phasing it out, clearly. Crops don"t need the same about of strenuous labor like cotton, rice and indigo in the south. Slaves mixed into the labor market, makes it much harder to nd a good paying job because the slaves aren"t paid making nobody want to hire free labor because its more expansive. The north was a very attractive destination for european immigrants, greater availability for land in the north west regions, a lot of immigrants were germans.
