er because it depended on them to engage in free trade (Document B). He noted that in America from 1824 to 1833, the tendency toward freedom or slavery, efficiency or inefficiency was steadily towards the former, and the country prospered, and emancipation was discussed in Virginia. However, in 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established, providing revenue duties, and this was the beginning of the domestic slave trade. Instead of freedom traveling South, slavery began to travel North. Carey denounced any system which exported raw materials, cheapened labor, and exported labor as promoting slavery and restricting freedom.
After the Civil War, there was much discussion about reconstruction and how the southern states should be handled. Andrew Johnson believed that they should come under the ôabsolute domination of military rulersö and rejected the First Reconstruction Act of 1867 which would have provided the states with ômore efficient governmentö (Document D). Previously, Thaddeus Stevens had considered them ôdead statesö and suggested that only Congress could determine
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