1. Chapter 8 Section 3 Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery By Alex Quach Brandon Clayton Brendan Busey Abby Fram Madison Taylor

2. The Revolution and Slavery  The manumission act of 1782 Allowed for slave owners to free their slaves in Virginia Atlantic slave trade outlawed in 1807 Emancipation act of 1799- granted freedom to slave children after they reached the age of 25. Southeners agreed to let congress end atlantic slave trade after 1807

3. The North and South Grow Apart  South Carolina and Georgia rejected the emancipation act.  A third of southerners were illiterate.  Northern section of Union had a better education. The Philidelphia convention 1787- northern states accepted clauses to guarantee the return of fugitive slaves and allowing slave imports to continue for 25 years.  The cotton boom increased the need for slavery  1817, American colonization society planned to resettle freed slaves in Africa

4. The Missouri Crisis  New York congressman James Tallmadge proposed ban on importation of slaves into Missouri.  Missouri applied for admission to the union, but was rejected because it had a constitution that allowed slavery.  Missouri compromise of 1819, allowed Maine to enter the union as a free state in 1820.  Missouri was allowed to enter the union as a slave state in 1821.