From Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation our weekly program of American history for people learning American English. Im Steve Ember in Washington.
Last week on our program, we talked about the election of 1840. William Henry Harrison easily defeated Martin Van Buren and became the ninth president of the United States.
By that time, another political force was growing in the country. It did not come from Van Burens Democratic Party. Nor did it come from Harrisons Whig Party. It grew out of slavery.
The dispute over slavery appeared to have been resolved for a time. A political compromise in 1820 kept a balance between slave and non-slave states. The compromise also barred slavery in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
But during the 1830s, the issue of slavery rose to the surface again. A major reason why the dispute came to life again was cotton.
Cotton plants grew in many fields across the southern states. Black slaves planted, picked and took care of the cotton crops. They also had other duties on southern farms.
Northern ships then carried southern cotton to the markets of Europe. Manufactured goods needed in the South came from the North.
The situation deeply troubled the political leaders of the South. They worried that cotton made their states economically dependent on the industrial North.
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