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    live in one place doesn’t mean they lived similarly. In fact New England and the Southern Colonies lived much differently from each other. Some of these differences are economic‚ political‚ and their Social. To start with the New England and Southern Colonies economic differed greatly. New England had a very rocky climate and short growing season‚ which internally made farming nearly impossible; The Colonist that did farm‚ only had enough food for their families and nothing more. On the other hand

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    How did slavery come to the colonies? Why did slavery come to the colonies? Slavery was most common in southern colonies. Most plantation heads saw slaves as a necessity to their plantation lifestyle. Slave did all of the manual work on whatever plantation they were on. African slaves tolerated the climates better than white people. African slaves had better resistance to many “white” diseases that basically devastated native populations. Slaves were made available in large and sufficient quantities

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    Slavery on Southern Plantations When we look back on American history there are many things that we are proud of. Americans are worldly known for being proud of their country and are considered to be full of them selves by many. However‚ our hands are not clean. For hundreds of years Americans had made African Americans their personal slaves and forced them to do manual labor and be servants. Even after the emancipation proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln‚ African Americans were persecuted

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    England‚ especially for its family relations and mortality rates. Being very close to my family‚ I couldn’t imagine living without one of my parents or even my grandparents for that matter. According to The American Pageant‚ families in the southern colonies had problems with spouses‚ especially men‚ dying young and rarely surviving to be in their twenties‚ children not making it to adulthood‚ and girls getting pregnant before they are married; men also had trouble finding a woman to form a family

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    Slavery has been the product of growing civilizations and society since the time of the Egyptians. Started by the need for labor slavery became the preferred method of labor. With a growing economy‚ many were unable to find enough help on the farms and plantations started in the colonies. The plantation owners in the south depended more on the workers‚ and fueled the need for slavery. In the South the main colonial exports consisted of cotton‚ and tobacco. In the beginning the plantation were

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    The existence of slavery lasted during the time of the colonies and continued when the colonies became the United States of America as a whole. Given that slavery was spread out across multiple colonies and states in the United States‚ it is safe to assume there was a great similarity and difference in slavery between the northern and southern regions. Slaves were treated as property‚ though their owners may have been more abusive in the South due to their needs for a higher quantity of workers to

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    crucial in the biblical slavery debates‚ other verses were equally significant. A notable example being Exodus 21:20 which states “When a slave owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately‚ the owner shall be punished.” Based on this verse southern proponents of slavery argued that the Bible’s acceptance of slavery was a given. In essence‚ if the Bible provided laws which regulated and allowed for the punishment of slaves by masters‚ then how could one deny that the

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    Economics 515 AU11 Midterm 1 Review 1. Explain the difference between economic growth and economic development. Define extensive growth. Define intensive growth A) Economic growth is defined by increases in GDP. B) Whereas‚ economic development is more of a vague measure usually incorporating social measures such as literacy rates or life expectancy as a means of measuring a country ’s level of development. C) Extensive Growth‚ is based on the expansion of the quantity

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    As slavery in the north was decreasing‚ slavery in the south was increasing rapidly. Ever since the textile boom in the northern states and in Europe‚ cotton has been a high demanding textile material. Plantation owners couldn’t work the whole plantations by themselves. The southern states depended heavily on slaves to work their plantations. The south depended heavily on slavery‚ and slavery was vital to the south because they needed the slave’s labor to work their plantations. This why slavery

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    Slavery and the Economy Over the course of history‚ historians have viewed slavery as an immoral and unjustifiable institution. At the beginning of the antebellum period‚ around 700‚000 slaves were unjustly imported and sold into slavery. New land discovered in America was seen as profitless and pointless without an inexpensive source of labor. By the end of this historical time period‚ that number increased to over 4‚000‚000 slaves brought into the United States. The institution of slavery helped

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