AUHIS 251 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - President Of The United States, Soviet Union, George Washington

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - History
• Course: AUHIS 251
• Professor: Rani

Document Summary

Came out of a successful revolution 1775. 13 colonies, loosely connected, no real capital or central army, all had slaves. Of the civil war (1860), there were approx 4 million slaves. Native americans were largely against the american revolution were afraid that the americans would cut all the trees down and expand farms and sacrifice the land. Southerners wanted to keep slaves, even though 90% of them didn"t even own slaves. If they freed the slaves, 600,000 people would be in search of work. A slave would be counted as of a human being. A way to count the slave population. When he became president, he was allowed to bring a few slaves. Ona judge one of his slaves ran away to the north. Washington spent thousands of dollars to send slave catchers out to find her, but she evaded them. All men are created equal men.