In the colonies political ideas were sprung by the British. The British controlled as much as they could see what they were across the pond. But once the American Revolution had fallen into place with us, the colonist, winning it. Their lives shifted towards our founding fathers Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and others they formed in wrote Our Declaration of Independence. What came from the document was a list of Freedom as we the people should and will have. Like “...that all men are created equal, that all are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” . This was a step up from England that would not give an individual the right to speak freely or believe in their creator at all. …show more content…
It was still a major confusing issue going on at this time. By about the 1780s slavery was abolished in the northern states but not the southern. At this point the country knew it was on thin ice to become their own country. So they let slavery continue to be a thing in the south for the mass production they needed to make items to sell. Also they didn't want slavery to become a major conflict in the north from the south so the north let it go. Up to a point they were able to let go, a law made stated, “ the method for apprehending runaway servants and slaves, and conveying them to their owners, as directed by the act of assembly made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his late majesty king George the second…”. Only so much of America would take from the King the awful cruel laws made the mass production of bringing in slaves to grow more crops for