1. REGIONAL ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES

2. TARIFFS
North
Favored tariffs – because if foreign goods were more expensive, consumers were more likely to buy American goods, and this would mean more factories and jobs

3. TARIFFS
South
Against tariffs – raised the price of imports for southerners

4. TARIFFS
West
Favored tariffs – tariffs would help encourage growth of American industry and cities in north, and they hoped to sell the products of their farms to northern workers

5. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
North
Liked tariffs paying for Internal Improvements; needed roads to move raw materials to the factories and carry finished goods to market

6. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
South
Did not feel the need for large-scale road and canal construction because they relied largely on rivers for transportation

7. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
West
Felt internal improvements were necessary to ship their farm products to the east and get factory-produced goods to the west

8. WESTERN LANDS
North
Opposed government’s selling of too much land too cheaply in the west; thought cheap western land would tempt city dwellers in the east to move west and decrease factory labor force

9. WESTERN LANDS
South
“Suspicious” of cheap western land; afraid that competition from western farmers would threaten their cotton sales

10. WESTERN LANDS
West
Favored cheap available land; wanted more settlers quickly so the territories could become states faster and have representation in congress