What are the issues about trade and slavery? North vs South Debate What are the issues about trade and slavery?
Now North vs. South debate Now there is a North vs. South debate What do you think their issues are?
Now North vs. South debate South: agricultural economy Cotton Tobacco indigo Needed large farms & slaves
North vs. South debate Most of their products sold to Great Britain or Europe
North vs. South debate North economy more diverse Farmers Fishers Merchants Bankers Labors who worked in factories Didn’t depend on slave labor
North vs South debate 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 Afraid GB would put tariffs on Southern products which would make it harder to sell
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
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!
South vs North Debate How do you resolve the difference? With the people next to you try to decided?
North vs Small debate 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
North vs South debate 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
North vs South Debate What does that mean? Who got their way? So on to the slavery issue. . . . .
North vs South Debate 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
North vs South Debate The Southern states are happy so Georgia, North Carolina, & South Carolina decided to join However, lots of people still aren’t happy Gouverneur Morris denounced slavery as “the curse of Heaven on the states” where it existed
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