Hist 1053/8/19Internal Improvements; building transportation systems, roads, canals, and other forms of transportationduring the 1800s. Maybe western states could become new nations, insurance that New West will stay as one nation. Alexander Hamilton suggested usage of force to keep the West a part of the United States.Build transportation system so that the west would have a healthy economic trading system between theold east and new west, national unity. Is it constitutional to build transportation system across the US? Albert Gallatin plan to make sure transportation system could be made Creation would be made by state and private companies. Thomas Jefferson and slavery, revered as one of the greatest founding fathers, had a sexual relationship with one of his slaves. Sally Hemmings half sister of his first wife, sired 2 sons and daughters. No such thing as a conceptual relationship. Diffusion and expansion of slavery let it spread into the west, it would weaken as it spreads out into more and more land. Colonization, slavery is going to end at one point what do slaves do then. America could not be a biracial or multiracial society; former slaves would have to leave the United States. Jefferson could imagine a nation w/o slavery but no ta biracial
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