1 / 4

Citizenship in the New Nation

Citizenship in the New Nation. Changing Attitudes toward African Americans. Call to end to slavery following Revolution Result of the freeing of slaves who fought in the war 1775-first antislavery societies were founded Benjamin Rush (signer) and Anthony Benezet (Protestant leader)

dard
Download Presentation

Citizenship in the New Nation

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Citizenship in the New Nation

  2. Changing Attitudes toward African Americans • Call to end to slavery following Revolution • Result of the freeing of slaves who fought in the war • 1775-first antislavery societies were founded • Benjamin Rush (signer) and Anthony Benezet(Protestant leader) • Small steps taken to ban slavery • States passed laws which made emancipating their slaves easier for slaveholders • Congress banned slavery in the Northwest Territory

  3. Free Blacks • U.S. had a sizable population of free blacks • Could be granted freedom, buy freedom or run away • Lived in rural areas and worked in agriculture • Faced limited opportunities (no right to vote, considered inferior) • Paul Cuffe (Boston shipper) • Bring free blacks back to Africa • Plans were impractical

  4. Slavery and the Constitution • 1787 delegates met to write the Constitution • Question of slavery arose • The Constitution did not ban the import of new slaves • Three-Fifths Compromise stated that every 5 slaves would be counted as 3 people for purposes of a state’s representation in Congress (State’s representation was determined by population)

More Related