What I learned today

In the late 1700’s racial tension was beginning to climax. Slaves had a big part in the production of crops after the revolutionary period. The increased numbers in slaves from the early 1700’s led to the increasing number of plantations and white slave owners. When the American Colonization Society was introduced in 1787 is primary cause was to rid the country of all black because of the rising racial tension. They proposed that all slaves be sent to Africa to find religious prosperity, economic, and political leadership. Nevertheless the African Americans would receive none of this if they were actually sent off. African Americans and Indians were refused the civil and political rights that the whites were given. The expansion of the colonies westward led to increasing problems with the Native Americans. Indian tribes believed that the whites were implemented to support and aid the struggling nations. Little by little the whites would take Indian land, via backing of the government. Although the white men that did encounter the tribes spoke of the Indians in good praises. Thomas Jefferson described them “In body and mind, equal to the white man."