1. What are the issues about trade and slavery?
North vs South Debate
What are the issues about trade and slavery?

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

3. Now North vs. South debate
South: agricultural economy
Cotton
Tobacco
indigo
Needed large farms
& slaves

4. North vs. South debate
Most of their products sold to Great Britain or Europe

5. North vs. South debate North economy more diverse Farmers Fishers
Merchants
Bankers
Labors who worked in factories
Didn’t depend on slave labor

6. 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

7. 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?

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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!

11. South vs North Debate How do you resolve the difference?
With the people next to you try to decided?

12. 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

13. 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

14. North vs South Debate What does that mean? Who got their way?
So on to the slavery issue

15. 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

16. 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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