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In four pages this paper affirms American historian Morton Keller’s claim that slavery and slave expansion dominated the U.S. presidential agendas during this time period. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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logical conclusion to draw since slavery and the slave question have been an unfortunate dark cloud hanging over the American landscape since the days of the American Revolution. While
the Founding Fathers presented themselves as champions of democracy and proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, many of these individuals were themselves slaveholders who
never considered them as part of the American political equation. In the early years of the newly formed United States, slavery was a virtual non-issue, but during the nineteenth
century as the North became more industrialized with no need for slave labor and the South became solely a plantation economy, slavery drove an even wider wedge into the growing
regional chasm. By the time the charismatic Andrew Old Hickory Jackson became president (1829-1837), the social inequality as it pertained to
Native Americans and African slaves was readily apparent. Jacksons presidency was beset by the social problems that resulted from territorial expansion and became "a famous example... of leading Americans
who resolved personal and social problems by subjugating others" (Foner 384). As the territory expanded during this time, so, too did slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the
territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits of popular sovereignty and self-determination" (Bailyn, Davis, Donald, Thomas, Wiebe, and Wood 427). Leaders in the North
did not believe slavery should be imposed upon the new territories, and Jackson often had serve as mediator as tensions between the North and South grew. He did nothing
to resolve the slave issue, but managed to keep the Union together on the strength of his own personality. After Jacksons presidency, he was followed by a series of
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