Nicholas Sosa

1. The political beliefs of the nativists were that they wanted to be protected against
immigrants or were against the immigrants in general. The nativists were hostile against
the immigrants because when the Irish and Germans arrived they began to work in the
New England factories which began to put many of the craftsmen out of work. I think that
the natives had the right to be against the immigrants because they were being put out
of business but I also believe that the immigrants should have a fair chance at a better
life because they came to America in order to live a better life than they had in their
home country.
2. The Germans and Irish wanted to migrate to America because of the opportunities of
better lives. The main push factor for the Irish was the potato famine. The famine wiped
out basically they’re only source of food at the time so it called for a move. The main
push factor for the German people was their failed political revolution. But both of these
groups of people shared the same pull factor which was the amount of jobs in America.
There were especially plenty of jobs in the north with the boom of the industrial
revolution and factories.
3. The Founding Fathers believed that slavery would slowly die out because they began to
set all their slaves free. They also began to sell their slaves to other slave owners. What
they didn’t realize was that they began the intercountry slave trade. Most of the
Founding Fathers lived in Virgina and a couple in Kentucky where mass amounts of
slaves weren’t needed. Other slave owners saw this and began to buy those slaves they
were setting free. They then sold the slaves to the giant cotton plantations in the deep
south and as the south expanded westward so did slavery. The slaves were the most
needed on the cotton plantations because that was the primary crop of the deep south.
So those wealthy cotton growing slave owners were willing to pay any price for the
slaves from further up north in states such as Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland.
4. The economic development of the south was different from the north because the south
was solely dependent on agriculture and mainly the production of cotton. Unlike the
north who could no longer rely on agriculture and became industrialized the south still
had very fertile soil and they began to expand westward to other areas with fertile land
so their production for the most part doubled with the additions of new territories.
5. Even though there weren’t a lot of slave owners, many of the other whites in the south
still supported the slave system because they were at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
Without the slaves the poor whites would be the lowest ranking class. But because of the
slaves they are viewed as trash and still have some respect from society.