1. Sectionalism
USH-2.3 and 2.4

2. I. The North
Geographically, it had safe harbors and fast flowing rivers
Settled by Puritans and other religious peoples
Developed industry
Money made from shipping was invested
Attracted immigrants
Germans
Irish
Worked in the factories

3. 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
Agreed w/protective tariff (1828)b/c it protected their factories

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

5. 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

6. III. West Geographically, fertile land and mineral deposits
Mostly agricultural, growing what crops were best suited
Wanted internal improvements
Roads, bridges, dams, etc.
North influenced by free states and South influenced by slave states

7. 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
West votes for the tariff
North supports internal improvements and cheap land
South gets nothing

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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