Believe that the Union can only be preserved by maintaining inviolate the Constitution of the United States as our fathers have made it. That Constitution guarantees to the people of every State the right to have slavery or not have it…each State being left free to decide for itself. The framers of that Constitution…well understood that each one of the thirteen States had distinct and separate interests, and required distinct and separate local laws and local institutions
3/4 of immigrants who came to the Chesapeake colonies came as Indentured Servants.
In an effort to deal with an increasing number of immigrants, in 1892 the U.S. government either banned or put limitations on many potential immigrants coming from Europe and Asia, especially China.
