52) Explain the source of the territorial dispute between Spain ...

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Question 1

How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention deal with the issue of slavery?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe the key aspects of the postwar economic crisis.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

52) Explain the source of the territorial dispute between Spain and the United States in the years after the Revolutionary War.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The issue of slavery was among the most difficult to resolve.
  


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  It revealed the existence of regional divisions within the new nation.
  


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  Planter delegates from Georgia and South Carolina refused to support any document that regulated the slave trade or curtailed slavery itself.
  


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  Rather than force the matter, northern delegates agreed to compromise.
  


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  For example, the three-fifths clause made every five enslaved people equivalent to three free people in apportionment matters.
  


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  Southern delegates dropped their protests against giving Congress the power to regulate international shipping.
  


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  In exchange, the importation of slaves was protected for twenty years and a fugitive slave provision was put into the Constitution.
  

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The end of the Revolutionary War brought widespread economic depression.
  


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  The split with Britain disrupted established patterns of commerce.
  


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  Purchases of foreign goods that were scarce in the United States drained hard currency away from the states and increased the Confederations debt.
  


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  Citizens everywhere felt the brunt of the postwar slump as prices dropped and the money supply shrank.
  


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  Families in debt, especially poor artisans and subsistence farmers, faced the threat of foreclosure and loss of their property.
  


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  Violence broke out in state after state as hard-pressed people decried tax and fiscal policies that favored the wealthy.
  

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  By 1783, Spain had control of Louisiana, West Florida, and East Florida.
  


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  Because Spain controlled both banks of the lower Mississippi, the Spanish determined who could use the river for trade.
  


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  Since 1763, the Spanish had let British subjects navigate freely on the Mississippi.
  


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  Nonetheless, Spanish authorities feared American expansion into the Mississippi Valley.
  


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  A 1783 treaty between Britain and the United States established the thirty-first parallel as the southern boundary of the United States.
  


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  The same treaty also gave Americans the right to navigate on the Mississippi.
  


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  The Spanish believed that West Florida stretched above the thirty-first parallel and that they alone should grant navigation rights on the Mississippi.
  

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