1. Bellwork Define sectionalism.
What made the different sections of the US feel animosity with each other?
What were the major sections of the US before the Civil War?

2. Wednesday, September 20 Bell Ringer Define sectionalism.
What made the different sections of the US feel animosity with each other?
What were the major sections of the US before the Civil War?
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3. Sectionalism
USH-2.3 and 2.4

5. I. The North
Geographically, it had safe harbors and fast flowing rivers
Settled by Puritans and other religious peoples
Developed industry b/c of money made from shipping could be invested
Attracted immigrants
Germans
Irish
Worked in the factories

6. I. The North Reformers called for public education
Helped immigrants to assimilate
The construction of the Erie Canal helped connect the Northeast and the Northwest
Northerners agreed w/protective tariff b/c it protected their factories

7. I. North

8. I. The North

9. CFU How did the North make $? Who lived there? How was education used?
What connected the Northeast and Northwest?
Why did the North like the tariff?
Industry and shipping
Puritans, then immigrants
Help immigrants assimilate
Erie Canal
Protected their factories

10. II. South Geographically, lots of fertile land to grow cash crops
South invested in slaves and agriculture
Did not have immigrants b/c of slave labor
Most owned NO slaves
Did not provide public education
It was illegal teach blacks, free or slave, to read

11. II. South Thought the National Bank gave too much power to the North
Thought state banks would offer cheaper loans
Opposed the tariff using nullification
Supported cheap western land as they moved west with slaves
Opposed internal improvements and Henry Clay’s American System

12. II. South

13. CFU How did the South make $? Why so few immigrants?
How many slaves did most people own?
How did the South fight against the tariff?
Why did the South want cheap western land?
Agriculture and slavery
Slaves did the work
Zero
Nullification
Move with their slaves

14. III. West Geographically, fertile land and mineral deposits
Mostly agricultural, growing what crops were best suited
North influenced by free states
South influenced by slave states

15. III. West Thought the National Bank gave too much power to the North
Thought state banks would offer cheaper loans
Followed Henry Clay’s American System
Accepted the tariff in exchange for Northern support for internal improvements and cheap land

16. III. West

17. III. West

18. III. West

19. III. West

20. CFU How did the West make $? Why did the West want smaller banks?
What did Henry Clay create?
What was the American System?
Farming
Better loans, too much power to North
The American System
West accepts the tariff and gets improvements and cheap land

21. IV. African Americans AAs lived in every section of the country
North free most after Declaration of Independence
Prohibited by the Northwest Ordinance
Not the same rights as whites
Disenfranchised by same law that gave every white man suffrage
Segregation was practiced

22. IV. African Americans In the South most were slaves
Conditions depended on place and master
Southern freedmen lived in cities as artisans
Better job opportunities than northern blacks
No civil or political rights

23. CFU What section had AAs? When were most blacks freed in the North?
What kind of rights did AAs have in the North?
Most southern blacks were…
What did southern freedmen have more of than northern freedmen?
All sections
After signing Declaration of Independence
Not the same, no voting rights, segregation
slaves.
Economic opportunities

24. V. Abolition Abolitionist movement began w/Quakers
Everyone, evens slaves, have an inner light
Both white and black
William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke sisters, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Different protests from newspapers, rallies, conventions, books, helping slaves escape

25. V. Abolition

26. V. Abolition Others were more violent
Nat Turner, John Brown
Led slave owners to justify slavery as a positive good
“Slaves are too dumb to care for themselves so we help them out.”
Most Northerners were NOT abolitionists

27. CFU What Americans began abolitionism and why?
What were some of the ways abolitionists protested?
What is “positive good”?
The Quakers b/c “everyone has an inner light”
Rallies, books, meetings, newspapers, helping slaves escape, etc.
Caring for slaves b/c they are not able to do so for themselves

28. VI. Women’s Rights Very active in the North
Tied to the abolitionist movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Called for women’s rights b/c they were not allowed to participate in an abolitionist convention

29. VI. Women’s Rights Many issues:
Access to education
Right to own property
Right to obtain a divorce
Was not successful before the Civil War

30. CFU What was most active in the North?
What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
What were the main issues of the movement?
When did the movement become successful?
Women’s rights
To address women’s rights b/c they weren’t allowed to speak at abolition conventions
Education, property ownership, divorce
After the Civil War