<p>If you guys can help me out with the following, i would really appreciate it: Ideas would be great, and anything extra would be much appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>How did economic, geographic, and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775? </p>
<p>To what extent did the debates about the Mexican War and its aftermath reflect the sectional interests of New Englanders, westerners, and southerners in the period from 1845-1855? </p>
<p>And to renumerate, I will scan the 2002 AP Chem exam and post the link.</p>
<p>For the first one, Bacon's Rebellion and the invention of the cotton gin are the most important (according to my history teacher) factors to the development of slavery.</p>
<p>how come ur doin stuff from the 1600-1700 time period??</p>
<p>The rivival of southern slavery was caused by Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin.</p>
<p>Some other precursors include the concept of "King Cotton" and foreign industries/ North's strong dependence on cotton. Note that with the rise of the market economy (caused by transportation improvments), the south was part of a system which supplied and demanded. </p>
<p>The second question i think deals with how new territory after the mexican war, brought back south and north sectionalism over the topic of slavery. When California asked to join as a free state, and "higher law" Seward noted that New Mexico land was unsuitible for cotton plantations, the South struggled to maintain equal power in the senate ( the north ended up winning the senate). This I guess also leads up to bleeding kansas.</p>