1. How did the North and South differ on their ideas?

2. What is the difference between these two pictures?

3. Sectionalism
North, South, and the West cared more about the needs and interests of their part of the country than what was good for the entire nation.
Loyalty to the state rather than the country

4. Activity
In your groups, walk around to each station to see the differences between the North and South. Chart your answers out in the appropriate boxes below. (Stations may have the answer to more than one box)

5. Economy

6. Northern Economy vs. Southern Economy
New technologies of the Industrial Revolution found its way to America.
Factories developed in the north because of its supplies of iron, coal, and rivers.
By 1860, about 70% of manufacturing (production) was in the North.
Many roads and railroads are built.
Many immigrants settled in the north because of the economic opportunities.
Agriculture (farming) was the foundation of the South’s economy.
Economy depended on the cotton crop grown by slave labor.
Tobacco, rice, and sugarcane were also important cash crops
When more people began to demand cotton plantation owners began to buy more slaves.

7. North - Industrialization
Developing businesses in a country, usually through manufacturing
Railroads
1830’s railroads developed quickly
Moves people, goods, and resources
Factories
Workers produce goods on a larger scale
Brings workers and machines together in one place

8. South - Agriculture
Farming
Produced cotton
Slave labor

9. Social

10. Society in the North Immigrants Free blacks Abolitionists
People who wanted to get rid of slavery

11. South- Society
Plantation owners
wealthy
Slaves
property

12. Political

13. Ideas on Slavery North vs. South
Pro (for) Slavery
Slaves
Property
Worked long hours on plantations
Punishments
Whippings, beatings,
Against slavery
Abolitionists
Spoke out against slavery
Slavery was against the law and sinful

14. How did Government try to prevent slavery from spreading?
Free State/Slave State
Constitution said each state would decide if slavery was OK or not
Congress could create laws about slavery
Slave State- state that allowed slavery
Free State- state where slavery was forbidden
1818- There were 11 free and 11 slave states

15. Missouri Compromise Missouri applied for admission as a slave state
Senate wanted to change the rules so that any new state had to be free
Maine requested statehood as free state
Henry Clay- Compromise
Missouri enter as a slave state
Maine enter as a free state

16. Compromise of 1850 California added to the union as a free state
Utah and New Mexico could decide if they would allow slavery
popular sovereignty
Territories can decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
New law- to help slave owners recapture slaves
“Fugitive Slave Law”