Pro Slavery Contributed To The Civil War

Overall, many things happened in America’s history that favored one side of slavery and also the other. The tension between each side slowly built and suddenly erupted into civil war. Americans today remember the debate on slavery and what is

During the early 17th century slavery was being practiced in the South for over 350 years. They were forced to work the production of tobacco, crops, and later cotton. When the cotton grin was evented in 1793 along with the growing demand product in Europe. The slaves had become a use to the South and it formed a foundation for their economy. Going into the late 18th century there were problems with slavery and they are the abolitionist movement, the Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Decision, and Abraham Lincoln.

Though slavery was a controversial topic of the 19th century, many people thought that slavery was necessary because they raised crops and maintained houses for their owners for free, but many people thought that this was inhumane so they contributed to something called the Underground Railroad, which a woman named Harriet Tubman contributed to the Underground Railroad by providing safe routes for slaves coming to the North, but this lead to the Civil War which was abolitionist vs. pro-slavery. Slavery started in 1619 in the first English settlement of Jamestown. Between 1502 and 1866, of the 11.2 million Africans, only 450,000 arrived in the United States, while the rest arrived in Latin America and the Caribbean. These slaves were brought as early as the 16th and 17th centuries. A number of slaves in the south in 1860 was about 2.3 million and this was during the end of the Underground Railroad.

During the mid 1800’s many Americans began to have mix feelings over the issue of slavery. Many northern Americans believed that slavery was morally wrong and that it was an evil. Southerners on the other hand believed it was a good for the economy as well as for commerce. This great split of attitudes between the north and the south eventually led to threat of the civil war.

Slavery in america began in the 17th century in Virginia. Slaves were being transported to america through the triangular trade. The triangular trade was a process in which africans were captured and traded for rum and other goods from england to africa. Slaves were packed in an unsanitary and crowded ship, they were treated poorly. The 18th century was the busiest period for the slave trade. More than 6 million africans were enslaved and transported to the new world. Document C illustrates how slavery spread throughout the united states, document c also shows that slavery in the north had decreased, it was mostly due to the fact that they were industrializing and they didn’t need slaves. The south, however used slaves because they were agricultural. they produced a lot of cotton, and many other cash crops and needed slaves to work their farms.

To begin, the reason why slavery began in the United States. When the Europeans first came to the Americas, they realized that the climate is different which allowed them to grow crops they couldn't back in Europe. These crops were called cash crops and were being sold in Europe but are grown in the Americas. Since Europe was in high demand for

Slavery existed heavily in the South by the 1700’s. What started out with indentured servants, quickly but slowly, became slavery in a more brutal and disheartening way. European colonists turned to slavery because for every one indentured servant there were 17 slaves. (Chapter 2, page 46) This made it easier for European colonists to be able to replace slaves rather than waiting for indentured servants. Also, during Bacon’s Rebellion, Europeans quickly learned that servants were dangerous, because they had a right to fight back. Servants expected to be free within seven years in exchange for working the Europeans land. This also created the image that slaves would be easier to control simply because they had nothing to look forward to, once a slave always a slave. Once the Virginia slave law came out, it initially separated blacks and whites by skin color thus beginning the road to the new definition of “race.” In the south, slavery was in higher demand due to the increase of land to grow crops, indigo and tobacco. The more land you had, the more slaves you needed to pick and grow these crops which increased your money value.

Slavery existed since the beginning of the United States’s time but was practiced long before in Western Africa. Slaves were important to the country’s economy and agriculture since they were based off of slave trade and plantations they worked in. After a few years, slavery demands and its population declined but after the invention of the cotton gin, demands went up again. They had to work harder than before and more Africans were sold off to white plantation owners. Although slaves had hard daily lives, were mistreated, and discriminated, they still refused to believe that there was no chance for them and instead rebelled for their freedom.

Slavery was an awful thing that lasted in the United States from August 1619 and ended in 1865. The period from 1776 to 1852 was a very eventful time for the opposition of slavery in the United States. One of the main events of this time period was the growing opposition of slavery. The main reasons for the growing opposition of slavery was because the North didn’t need slaves to produce their exports effectively, Anti-Slave Societies, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

During the nineteenth century in America the issue of slavery became a huge ordeal between many groups of people. In the South this issue was more prominent than in the North due to many factors, which included the economy, way of life, and beliefs of southern whites. The need for slaves increased after the invention of the cotton gin so slaves were high in demand for processing cotton. In the South, the economical system revolved around the use of slaves due to the strong agricultural economy that had been formed. Justifications such as the use of the Gospel, and examining how slavery helped to boost the economy gave the whites all the reason more to keep slavery around. Slavery was a way of life for many generations and it had no signs of changing no matter how bad the North pushed the issue that slavery was wrong.

Slavery in America began during the early 17th century and followed with the abolitionist movement in the late 1800’s. This movement created a continental divide between southern and northern states. In the south, there are the Southern Democrats who supported the idea of slavery and believed that the institution was necessary for the survival of the south. Southern Democrats also argued that the North turned their back on the “real” America. While the northern states were composed of Republicans, such as Abraham Lincoln, whose efforts to exterminate slavery eventually caused the absorption of anti-slavery Whigs and most of the Know-Nothing party. In the years that followed, slavery fueled the fire that started the Civil War.

The fight against slavery started with the Missouri Compromise, which caused the first debate over slavery within the national government. It was a very heavy topic to be addressed, which is why many political figures stayed away from it. Slavery was so important because without it, the Southern Economy would crumble. Since the Southern economy runs on the exportation of cotton and other plants, if there were no slaves to maintain the field and tend to the crops, the southern way of living would crumble. With opposition to that argument, we can see that the North has already begun to get away from slavery and their views are completely different that the South’s.

During the 1760’s, slavery was a normal and well-structured part of American society despite the tremendous amount of problems with the institution. Slaveholders often treated their slaves like disposable property, which rightfully angered blacks, and many whites questioned the act of owning another human being. As time moved forward, the country fell into a state of despair over many issues, including slavery, and these problems caused the North and South to go to war with each other. Though the war was not started to declare the fate of slavery, blacks mostly fought on the side of the North in hopes that they would prove to whites that they deserved to be treated as equals. Slavery went from being codified in the Revolutionary era to being abolished in the Reconstruction era due to the rise of multiracial rebellion and organization.

Slavery in the United States of America started in British North America during the early colonial days of European settlement on the continent. By 1800, a few northern states had abolished (gotten rid of) slavery. Abolitionism continued to spread throughout the North in the decades that followed. At the same time, southern states saw a rapid expansion of the cotton industry by using slaves as unpaid labor on cotton plantations. By 1860, there were 15 slave states in the South. 400,000 families in these states had slaves in their households. Southern states were threatening to leave the United States in order to protect their growing cotton industry and retain the ability to have slaves.

Slavery has been apart of the United States history since the early 16th and 17th century; the early colonial period. Even though slavery is apart of the U.S. history, there was a divide between the north and the south and their pre war beliefs. The two regions would display their pre civil war slavery debates beliefs, and the evolution of slavery. The clash between abolitionists in the North and slaveholders in the South was a contributing factor in the outbreak of the Civil War. The civil war displayed the divide the county had with the conclusion of emancipation of slavery, freeing over 4 million slaves.