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lifeThomas jefferson ,James madison and George washington wanted slavery to fade away. They wanted to shirft from tobacco to wheat in hopes it would undermine the slavery.
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In 1802 slaves would go for $600. By 1860 the brice price tipled to $1,800The number of slaved sold increasedc from 1.5 million to 4 million in 1860.
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They could no longer get manufactured goods. So america built there own factories in the North.
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industryThomas Jefferson wanted to preserve the US as a nation of faermers.
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tariffA tariff on imports made to protect the american industy. This tariff increased the prince of imported manufactured goods by an average of 20 to 25 percent.
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workersThe workingmans party competed in local and state elections They wanted free public education and laws to limit the working day.
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The middle class expanded as men worked as bankers lawyers brokers farmers ect. Most workd outside the home but some worked from home like farmers.
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Lowell mills girls held strikes when the employers cut the wages and increased thier charges for boarding.
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[immigrants](http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States)Middle class and most of the nations farmers had been born in the United States.
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Some politicians in the whig party explotited ethnic tenstions called the nativits.
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slavesIn 1850 Washintong Jeferson and Madison no longer defended slavery as necessary evil but as touted good.
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Immigrants comprised more than 40 percent of ne York City. Some working class moved to the midwest including Cincinnati chicago cleavland and detroit.
