The area was part of the Louisiana purchase
Answer:
Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery. ... Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse.
Explanation:
Clarence Thomas & David Souter
The strategic decision was to try and get on there good side so that no more of there land got taken and also ways so that they knew what was going on and to get inside information. Your welcome. :) Brainliest please?
