JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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slavery was banned
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it was illegal to transport or acquire people as slaves
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it was illegal to bring people into the United States for slavery, but owning slaves continued to be legal
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it was legal to bring people into the United States from Latin America for slavery, but not from places outside the Western Hemisphere
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Detailed explanation-1: -Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves 1807 On March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation to end the profitable international slave trade. President Thomas Jefferson, who had promoted the legislation, promptly signed the act, making it law.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery was abolished only because Britain no longer needed slavery in order to make money for the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -An act of Congress passed in 1800 made it illegal for Americans to engage in the slave trade between nations, and gave U.S. authorities the right to seize slave ships which were caught transporting slaves and confiscate their cargo. Then the “Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves” took effect in 1808.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was only after many failed attempts that, in 1807, the slave trade in the British Empire was abolished. However, slaves in the colonies (excluding areas ruled by the East India Company) were not freed until 1838 – and only after slave-owners, rather than the slaves themselves, received compensation.