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Why did slavery become a necessary evil of colonial economics?
Not all historians would agree that slavery was a "necessary" evil. In colonial America, slavery was a cheaper option was to running plantations than hiring laborers. Slaves weren't usually (if ever) paid for work, they often lived in broken-down buildings, their food was not high-quality.... etc. So I guess the shortest answer to this question would be: slavery was probably the cheapest and easiest way to run a plantation or farm.
What three things work together to make the southern economy?
Cotton, Slavery, and Oil
What are the bad things about slavery?
Slavery was bad because human beings were treated as property. They were killed, beaten and their children were taken from them.
What describes slavery's role in the economy?
slavery was a luxury to the southern because they were to lazy to grow there own tobacco and cotton so they had the slaves do it
Who profit from slavery?
who profited most from the union of slavery and cotton production
What did political parties do for many years after the Missouri compromise?
Political parties avoided the issue of slavery for many years after the Missouri compromise.
How did the farmers deal with the issue of slavery?
slaves were farmers.
In their early years North Carolina and Georgia avoided reliance on slavery?
true
Why did yeoman farmers not oppose slavery?
Because they were yeoman.
Which political party's platform completely avoided the issue of slavery altogether?
The Whig Party's platform completely avoided addressing the issue of slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. They focused more on economic issues and internal improvements rather than taking a stance on the divisive issue of slavery.
How did slavery affect the United States?
Slavery has had a great impact on the United States. Originally slavery was used as free labor for many farmers.
How had slavery been eliminated in the British West Indies?
What were the economic reason the framers avoided the slvaery question
What does western farmers think about slavery?
Western Farmers where not really against of for slavery, but they did not want slaves to be set free for fear of them taking there land and vausing them more trouble than they already have with the indians.
Why were the yeomen farmers not opposed to slavery?
because they need them to help with there crops
The evasion of the slavery issue by whigs and democrats in 1848?
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
Why do you think the farmers were silent on the issue of slavery in the wording of the Constitution?
Because farmers needed slaves to pick cotton, Dumb a$$, did you mean Framers?
What caused the issue that the north and south fought over in the government when they avoided the slavery issue by the compromises?
The issue that the North and South fought over was called the Wilmot Proviso. It was basically a law of slavery: the North and South were fighting over slavery. The North were anti-slavery and the South were pro-slavery
