The slave trade increased in the seventeenth century, as more large-scale agricultural production increased the need for labor. The demand for sugar, a highly profitable crop that grew well in various parts of the Americas, continued to grow. And the Europeans introduced large-scale production of indigo, rice, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and cotton. Imports of African slaves increased over the latter half of the 17th century and into the 18th. Approximately 1.3 million slaves were exported on the trans-Atlantic route in the 17th century; over 6 million were exported in the 18th century.
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- Counterbalancing branches of government.
- Separation of powers among the three branches of government protected the rights of the people.
- Federalist supporters battled for a strong union and the adoption of the Constitution
- Federalists argued that the Constitution did not include a bill of rights because the new Constitution did not vest in the new government the authority to suppress individual liberties.
- Federalists further argued that because it would be impossible to list all the rights afforded to Americans, it would be best to list none.
Justice of the Supreme Court
President Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981. She previously had served as a member of the state senate in Arizona and as a judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals. She served as a Supreme Court justice for over two decades, until her retirement in January, 2006.
The main way in which the Sacco Vanzetti case exemplified the rise of nativism in the united states is that much of the backlash over the murders came to the fact that these two men were immigrants--which the Nativists hated.
