JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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A special committee of abolitionists petitioned the convention to end slavery, but the convention refused to address the issue.
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A special committee made up of slave owners refused to allow the convention to take action on the problem of slavery.
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All the delegates refused to take action because it was a complex problem.
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A special committee declared it an evil practice, but the convention left it up to slave owners to free their slaves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How was slavery addressed during Tennessee’s Second Constitutional Convention? A special committee declared it an evil practice, but the convention left it up to slaveowners to free their slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -No delegates to the Constitutional Convention defended the morality of slavery. The best argument that they could muster on behalf of slavery was protecting their own economic interest. John Rutledge of South Carolina admitted: “Religion and humanity had nothing to do with this question.
Detailed explanation-3: -Antislavery groups petitioned for the abolition of slavery, but the delegates rejected their appeals. Instead, the convention added language requiring the approval of slave owners for the passage of any future acts of emancipation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.