North vs South DebateWhat are the issues about trade

and slavery?

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• Now there is a North vs. South debate– What do you think their issues are?

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• South: agricultural economy– Cotton– Tobacco– indigo

• Needed large farms– & slaves

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• Most of their products sold to Great Britain or Europe

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• North economy more diverse– Farmers– Fishers– Merchants– Bankers– Labors who worked in factories

– Didn’t depend on slave labor

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• Northern economy– Didn’t depend on slave labor– Ship building and trade with other nations

• Had to compete with lots of nations

TRADE

• Tariff: tax on goods and products imported from other nations

• Framers disagreed about Tariffs

• North wanted them and the South didn’t– Can you guess why?

TRADE

• Northern wanted Tariffs so British products were more expensive– Believed the national government should

control trade

• Southern didn’t want tariffs because Great Britain would buy from other countries– DID’T Believed the national government

should control trade

Slavery

• Northern states didn’t have slavery and Southern states did– South finically

dependent– Slavery is a state right

not a national right• 3 Southern states said

they wouldn’t join the union if slavery wasn’t allowed

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Slavery

• Northern states were typically more populated so Southern states didn’t want the North to out vote the– Wanted to count slaves as part of the

population count!– North didn't like this!

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• How do you resolve the difference?– With the people

next to you try to decided?

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• Congress shall have the power:– Section 8

• To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imports, and Excises

• To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and the Indian Tribes

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• Congress shall have the power:– Section 9

• The Migration of Importation of such Person as any of the State now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808

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• What does that mean?

• Who got their way?

• So on to the slavery issue. . . . .

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• Agreements about slavery– Slaver trade would not end before 1808– Include the 3/5 clause

• 3/5 clause: A slave counts as 3/5 a person when counting population and deciding representation in congress

• Fugitive slave clause: person who escapes from slavery to a state where slavery was prohibited shall be returned

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• The Southern states are happy so Georgia, North Carolina, & South Carolina decided to join

• However, lots of people still aren’t happy

Work Cited

• http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/E0DFEFF9-930A-4F72-8499-0591F07B1F0C/BE063863.jpg

• http://www.kushtush.com/organicfarmsusa.htm

• http://www.understandingrace.org/history/society/resisting_slavery.html