[HIST 216] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (31 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 216
• Professor: Roseanne Currarino

Document Summary

Similarities: both north and south considered to be vary literate(not including slaves) Politics of the time: eventually us settles into to main parties the wigs(republican) and the democrats, the wigs have very nationalist views. Statistics: 1830-2 million of 13 million americans enslaved, 1840-2. 5 million of 17 million americans enslaved, 1860-4 million of 31. 5 million americans enslaved. Key info: slave owners found it more pro table to work a slave to death and then buy a new slave, then to take just care of their slaves. ), others either domestic slaves, or skilled workers. Buying & selling of slaves: 2 million acts of sale(buying and selling slaves) too place in the antebellum period. *this only includes legal sales: slave labour often imported from virginia using loans from northern banks, virginia slave loaning begins as the virginia tobacco market crashes, new orleans-biggest purchaser of slaves from virginia.