1. Pride in section of country vs. Pride in America

2.  Northerners  Favored protective tariff, 2 nd Bank of the US, internal improvements at federal expense  Economic pursuits- shipping, fishing, lumbering and farming  Significant industrialization ◦ Utilized free labor ◦ Powerful class of industrial capitalists ◦ Massachusetts- leading industrial state ◦ Chief products-textiles, leather goods, iron implements, utensils, machinery ◦ Created jobs for large immigrant population.

3.  Opposed protective tariff, 2 nd Bank of the US, internal improvements at federal expense  Favored liberal land policy, territorial expansion into the southwest expansion of slavery  Farming economy ◦ Many small subsistence farmers ◦ Small # of wealthy plantation owners dominated  Used slave labor  Cash crops –tobacco, rice, sugar but cotton was KING

4.  Favored protective tariffs, liberal land policy, territorial expansion, internal improvements at federal expense  Opposed 2 nd Bank of the US, expansion of slavery  Small, family-sized farms  Raised wheat, rye, corn, meat  Worked hard on own farms to improve economic status