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The Role Of Slavery In The United States
Slavery was an important and crucial development to the United States and Texas. This allowed their economies to grow and fuel the development of these states. However, as states started to join the union, slavery started to decline in the northern United States and increase in the Lower United State including Texas.
The United States was divided on slavery and the Norther States abolished slavery while the southern states embraced it. The northern states above the Missouri Compromise of 1820 did not allow slavery. The United States economy played an important role in slavery were it either strengthened or weakened it. The northern states did not have a strong agricultural business due to the type of hard and rocky soil that proved
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