North and SouthSPRITE

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Bell Ringer

• 1. How can people in different regions of the country have different attitudes and beliefs?

• 2. How can these differences in relationships affect the country both in the past and in the present?

Objective

• Students will be able to analyze the social, political, and economic differences between the North and the South leading up to the Civil War.

The US Economy

The North

• Larger towns and cities• Industrial • Workers worked for wages

• The railroad transported manufactured goods• Large amounts of immigrants• Opposed slavery• Slavery would compete with jobs• Slavery would reduce the status of whites who

needed jobs

The South

• Rural and agricultural• Plantations and small farms

• Rivers for transportation of goods• Few immigrants because slavery didn’t leave many job

opportunities• The majority of the South’s population consisted of slaves• Southerners were in support of slavery • For economic reasons-production of agriculture• Feared that freedom would mean a social and economic

revolution and destruction of the South

The Big Debate

• Slave states v. free states• As we moved west the North and South had extensive

debates in Congress over whether new states would be slave states or free states.

• Compromise of 1850• North: California was free

• South: Fugitive Slave Law-Escaped slaves had to be returned to masters or northerners would be prosecuted

• Popular Sovereignty: The right of states to decide their needs via voting

Northern Reactions

• Fugitive Slave Act: 6th amendment not protected• Northerners protected escaped slaves• Sent fugitives to Canada• Passed Personal Liberty Laws: Forbade

prison/gave fair trials• Underground Railroad• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by abolitionist, Harriet

Beecher Stowe

Stephen Douglas

• In favor of popular sovereignty and states’ rights (10th Amendment)

• Kansas-Nebraska Act• Popular Sovereignty

• Problems: Repealed Missouri Compromise (all states north of Missouri=free, south=slave

Kansas Nebraska v. Missouri Compromise

The Republican Party

• Founded by Horace Greely

• Anti-Slavery

• United in opposing Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Conservatives wanted to resurrect Missouri Compromise

• Abraham Lincoln

Homework

• Read the following sections on pages 324-326:• Slavery Dominates Politics

• Dred Scott Decision

• The Lincoln Douglas Debates

• Lincoln challenges Douglas

• Positions and arguments

• Answer #3 on page 331