1. Tensions between North and south
Aim: How did North and South become divided throughout the early 1800s?
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2. Tensions between North and south
Aim: How did North and South become divided throughout the early 1800s?
Do Now: How was the North and South different in the early 1800s?

3. Election of 1796

4. Election of 1828

5. Railroads and canals to the east Plantation farming Use of slaves
North
South
Industry and commerce
Factories
Growth of cities
Railroads and canals to the east
Strong ties between North and Midwest states
Plantation farming
Use of slaves
Exported cotton
Invest in slaves and not industry
Most Southern whites were poor with exception to the few rich plantation owners.

6. Antislavery and Racism
Abolition – the movement to put an end to slavery
Almost all were racist by today’s standards
Why people defended slavery
Whites superior to blacks
Helping African Americans by:
Christianity
Give them food, clothing, and shelter

8. Missouri Compromise Keep the balance of free states vs. slave states
Free states would dominate Congress
States = representatives
If there are more slave states represented in Congress, then more laws could be passed to keep slavery
If there are more free states, then laws could be passed to abolish slavery

9. Missouri Compromise
Maine – free state. Missouri – slave state. Keeps the balance
north of 36°30’ line of latitude – no slavery
south of 36°30’ line of latitude – slave states

10. The Compromise of 1850 California becomes a state
Tipping the balance of slave and free states
The compromise
California would be a free state
No laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico
Law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves

12. The Fugitive Slave Act
Runaway slaves to the north must be returned to south
If help fugitive, than go to jail
A moral choice
Obey the law or break the law to oppose slavery?