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“Have the Northern states any idea of the value of our slaves? At least, sir, six hundred millions of dollars. If we lose them, the value of the lands they cultivate will be diminished in all cases one half, and in many they will become wholly useless. And an annual income of at least forty millions of dollars will be lost to your citizens, the loss of which will not alone be felt by the none -slaveholding states, but by the whole Union. For to whom, at present, do the Eastern states, most particularly, and the Eastern and Northern, generally, look for the employment of their shipping, in transporting our bulky and valuable products [cotton], and bringing us the manufactures and merchandises of Europe? ." Source: Excerpt from a speech by Representative Charles Pinckney of South Carolina to uphold slavery. (1820)
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1. Nationalism or Sectionalism?
My Answer: Sectionalism
2. Evidence from the text to support your claim.
My Answer: “Have the Northern states any idea of the value of our slaves? At least, sir, six hundred millions of dollars. If we lose them, the value of the lands they cultivate will be diminished in all cases one half, and in many they will become wholly useless.”
3. Which idea do you most agree with most regarding this time period? Why?
My Answer: Despite growing nationalism, the North and the South developed two distinctly different identities. The North saw the rise of manufacturing, while the South was still predominantly agricultural and looked to the North to manufacture its raw materials. So I agree that slaveholding states could help develop the manufacturing.
4. Cite evidence from the text to support your argument.
My Answer: ”For to whom, at present, do the Eastern states, most particularly, and the Eastern and Northern, generally, look for the employment of their shipping, in transporting our bulky and valuable products [cotton], and bringing us the manufactures and merchandises of Europe? ."