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Questions

1. What was the role of indentured servitude and slavery in the early settler experiences? How did this vary culturally across different colonies? What was the role of indentured servitude and slavery in shapring the political economy-internally and externally subsequent economic trajectory of different colonies prior to Independence?

2. What role did indentured servitude and slavery play and factor into positions in how different ethnoregional groups approached the debate over the Constitution? What were they key compromises with regard to slavery in the Constitution?

3. How did the role of slavery evolve in the 1800s? How did the political economy vary across different states? What was the position of different states regarding slavery in the 1850s?

4. What were the different forms of political organization and governance arrangements that supported slavery settler colonies? How were these factored into and reflected in the debate after the Civil war and the constitutional debate around key powers to the national/federal government? How is this related to the Fourteenth Amendment?

5. Reflection and Synthesis! What new questions are emerging for you as you consider the compromises that were struck at the Constitution convention during the independence period, and what issues were unresolved? What questions are arising for you after reading and reflecting on the assignment that relates to your own understanding of the role of indentured servitude and slavery in founding and evolution of the United States and our Constitution?