History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1656 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Clearing the Land
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The idea
As new slave states entered the Union, White slaveholders sent armies of the enslaved to clear the land for cotton.
In practice
Entire old-growth forests and cypress swamps falling to the axe.
Where people slip
This ran directly against the Jeffersonian vision of the West settled by White yeoman farmers, taught at Unit 08 entry 1063.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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