Great American Culture Quiz. Three Fifths Compromise The Big Issues: Tariffs and Slaves.
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Great American Culture Great American Culture QuizQuiz
Three Fifths Three Fifths CompromiseCompromise
The Big Issues:
Tariffs and Slaves
Northern & Southern Northern & Southern EconomiesEconomies
Southern States:- Agricultural
- Depended on Slave labor
Northern States:-Manufacturing
- Farming- Banking
- Merchants-Fishing
THE SOUTHERN THE SOUTHERN ECONOMYECONOMY
The South was made up of large Plantations where they produced
cotton, tobacco & indigo
SOUTHERN TRADESOUTHERN TRADE
Southern States sold most of their produce to Britain
& bought most manufactured goods from Britain
NORHTERN ECONOMYNORHTERN ECONOMYMuch more diverse than the South• Merchants• Bankers• Farmers• Fishers• Manufacturing• No slaves• Competed with Britain
Paul Revere, Silversmith Samuel Adams, Brewer
John Hancock,Shipper
THE SLAVERY THE SLAVERY ISSUEISSUE
Read page 124 – “Why was there a conflict about slavery?
1. Which side opposed allowing slavery?2. Which side though states should be allowed
to decide if they would have slaves?3. What was the dilemma the anti-slavery
Framers faced?
Southern vs. Northern Southern vs. Northern PerspectivePerspective
The Southern Framers wanted slaves counted as part of their population.WHY?
The Anti-Slave Framers didn’t want slaves counted as part of population.WHY?
So to recap…The North wanted Congress to have power to impose tariffs and control trade
The South wanted the Constitution to allow them to continue to practice slavery and to have slaves counted as part of their population
COMPROMISECOMPROMISE- Congress given power to impose Tariffs and regulate trade between states.- Slavery could not be abolished until 1808- Slaves counted as three-fifths of population- Fugitive slaves caught in north to be returned to the south
The Three-Fifths ClauseThe Three-Fifths ClauseArticle 1, Section 2, Clause 3
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States . . .
according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to
the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a
Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other persons.
This compromise was the This compromise was the only way slave states (North only way slave states (North Carolina, South Carolina, & Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia) would support and Georgia) would support and
ratify the Constitution. ratify the Constitution.
ThinkThink• Allowing the slave states to count slaves as
their full population would have made it less likely slavery would ever be abolished.
• 4 Million slaves in 1860 . . . With full representation, the South would control the House of Representatives and Abraham Lincoln would probably not have been elected President
• Three fifths clause provided an incentive to free slaves in the South (full representation)
THE END