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    the mid 1800s slavery played an important stage in the economic development of early America and helped America to become an economic power house later in time by laying the foundation of a strong economy and government. Slavery propelled the new world’s economy and once America got its independence the taxes on slaves and the products that slaves made and grew helped boost the economy and along with the exports that they made. Slavery played a larger role in building America’s economy then you would

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    Geographic Factors

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    features include but are not limited to landforms and ecosystems. For example‚ terrain types‚ bodies of water‚ natural units (consisting of all plants‚ animals and micro-organisms in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical factors of the environment) are natural geographical features. Meanwhile‚ human settlements‚ engineered constructs‚ etc. are types of artificial geographical features. Contents [hide] 1 Natural geographical features 1.1 Ecosystems 1.2 Landforms 2 Artificial

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    Beginning From the first settlement founded in the 1600’s‚ the British colonies were a varied mix of communities that grew to distinct civilizations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Queen Elizabeth helped drive the colonization of Jamestown in 1607 and ultimately the creation of other Southern colonies to help Britain’s economy flourish. In contrast‚ James I‚ Elizabeth’s successor‚ spurred the settlement of the Northern colonies for religious reasons when he “vowed to purge England of all radical Protestant

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    According to the research‚ Slavery started and the African slaves were bought to North America in Virginia in 1619. Slavery was everywhere throughout the colonies in 17th and 18th century. So‚ The African slaves helped the new nation to build their economic foundations. There were many things came out during slavery like cotton gin‚ rise of abolition movement‚ Westward expansion‚ Civil War‚ Emancipation‚ etc. The cotton gin was important to the south economy. West expanded and in the North abolition

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    The northern and southern colonies were different from each other. Different reasons brought people here. the colonies survived in different ways judging by their resources. The north didn’t develop slavery but the south did. People came to America for different reasons. For example people who came to the south came for gold plant tobacco and rice. People from the north wanted free religion. According to the site New England colony‚ "The religion practised in New England was strictly Puritan

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    The Role of Slavery on Southern Economy    Despite its dark definitions‚ slavery was an essential ingredient in the creation of a strong  economy for Antebellum period America. Slavery was the factor that shaped the lives of all  people white or black‚ in that it determined; where they worked and how they lived. With such a  strong hold on society‚ it was no wonder that slavery had a major role in the development of  American economy.    From the beginning of the 1800s towards the beginning of the Civil War the population 

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    The Northern and Southern colonies had many similarities between the years of 1607 to 1763‚ but the idea that they were more similar than different is vastly incorrect. The economy in the Southern colonies was based off of planting and slave labor‚ which was very common‚ while land in the Northern colonies‚ for the most part‚ was not fertile enough to support planting. Another difference between the North and South was that government and the church had very close ties in the North‚ compared to a

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    The Southern Economy

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    The southern economy flourished on the backbones of the men and women that were enslaved in the 18th and 19th centuries. With the threat of the removal of the core method of profit for hundreds of plantation owners‚ an anger rose that would lead to an illogical reaction of withdrawing their entire region from the country that had built them. In essence the South felt a strong need to protect what they believed they possessed: the use of humans as components in the profit machine. This fierce protectiveness

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    prohibiting Congress from touching slavery laws for at least twenty years. The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise was made to encourage the southern states to ratify the Constitution. The Founding Fathers postponed action regarding the disagreement over slavery until the Northern states pushed for a solution to abolish slavery. In the aftermath of the United States Civil War‚ the Thirteenth‚ Fourteenth‚ and Fifteenth Amendments were necessary to address the issues of slavery‚ citizenship‚ and voting rights

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    verbs. We will also begin looking at some more complicated sentence constructions such as indirect statement and relative clause and see how they are used in context. Emphasis will be on reading‚ with Cambridge Latin Course Units II and III as our primary resources. We will also continue cultural studies begun in Latin I. The focus will be on the Roman colonies in Britain and Egypt‚ with special focus on military installations and the cities of Alexandria and Aquae Sulis (modern day Bath‚ England)

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