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Bell Ringer
• 1. How can people in different regions of the country have different attitudes and beliefs?
• 2. How can these differences in relationships affect the country both in the past and in the present?
Objective
• Students will be able to analyze the social, political, and economic differences between the North and the South leading up to the Civil War.
The North
• Larger towns and cities• Industrial • Workers worked for wages
• The railroad transported manufactured goods• Large amounts of immigrants• Opposed slavery• Slavery would compete with jobs• Slavery would reduce the status of whites who
needed jobs
The South
• Rural and agricultural• Plantations and small farms
• Rivers for transportation of goods• Few immigrants because slavery didn’t leave many job
opportunities• The majority of the South’s population consisted of slaves• Southerners were in support of slavery • For economic reasons-production of agriculture• Feared that freedom would mean a social and economic
revolution and destruction of the South
The Big Debate
• Slave states v. free states• As we moved west the North and South had extensive
debates in Congress over whether new states would be slave states or free states.
• Compromise of 1850• North: California was free
• South: Fugitive Slave Law-Escaped slaves had to be returned to masters or northerners would be prosecuted
• Popular Sovereignty: The right of states to decide their needs via voting
Northern Reactions
• Fugitive Slave Act: 6th amendment not protected• Northerners protected escaped slaves• Sent fugitives to Canada• Passed Personal Liberty Laws: Forbade
prison/gave fair trials• Underground Railroad• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by abolitionist, Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Stephen Douglas
• In favor of popular sovereignty and states’ rights (10th Amendment)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act• Popular Sovereignty
• Problems: Repealed Missouri Compromise (all states north of Missouri=free, south=slave
The Republican Party
• Founded by Horace Greely
• Anti-Slavery
• United in opposing Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Conservatives wanted to resurrect Missouri Compromise
• Abraham Lincoln