MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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The early factory system relied on the labor of slaves.
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The majority of American families owned several slaves.
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Slave rebellions made most whites oppose freedom for African Americans.
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Southern states would not agree to a constitution that banned slavery.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The framers of the Constitution believed that concessions on slavery were the price for the support of southern delegates for a strong central government. They were convinced that if the Constitution restricted the slave trade, South Carolina and Georgia would refuse to join the Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -With the establishment of rice and indigo as commodity export crops, South Carolina became a slave society, with slavery central to its economy. By 1708, African slaves composed a majority of the population in the colony; blacks composed the majority of the population in the state into the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -The specific clauses of the Constitution related to slavery were the Three-Fifths Clause, the ban on Congress ending the slave trade for twenty years, the fugitive slave clause, and the slave insurrections.
Detailed explanation-4: -Section I of the Thirteenth Amendment reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”