HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Forced Migration, Upland South, Mississippi Territory
Document Summary
Sale of western land and settler expansion was tied to the wealth the us could produce and their image in international politics: small family farms for self-sufficiency, extension of slavery. Time period was a gray area between the early national perid and antebellum period. Before being claimed by the us, there was some french settlement but it was abandoned by the government and mostly unsettled. Congress prohibited importing slaves from africa into the louisiana territory on. January 26, 1804: slaves were transported to the atlantic coast, new slave trade was developed to bring them to the louisiana territory. Us abolished trans-atlantic slave trade in 1808 which led to smuggling. Government sold almost half a million acres between 1807-1812: great source of much needed revenue, favored those who had money to get good land, small farmers from the south moved and brought slaves. Ruined thomas jefferson"s goal of small farms .
