Slavery and its Setting in North America

• Slavery began in the South during the 1600s because slaves were needed for labor on the plantations.
• Landowners were most interested in these slaves because they needed laborers that would help maintain their land.
• Once slaves would arrive in America, they were immediately treated as property.
• Slave owners were so cruel that they could break up a family or a marriage by simply selling some of their slaves.
• Slavery divided the North and the South because slavery was supported much more in the South than it was in the North.
• Northerners were abolitionists because they wanted to destroy slavery.  On the other hand, Southerners were pro-slavery, obviously because they wanted to continue slavery.
• The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery to expanded into new territories above the Louisiana Purchase.  This was an agreement between those who were anti-slavery and those who were pro-slavery.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act soon violated the Missouri Compromise because these two territories were given the change to choose between become a slave or free state.  Since these two territories were located North of the Louisiana purchase, it was prohibited for them to practice slavery.
• It was this type of tension that sparked the Civil War between the North and the South.
• After the war ended in the year 1865, slavery was terminated.

Works Cited:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/slavery.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24714472/ns/us_news-gut_check/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_hist.htm
Mr. Anthony
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