Important Topics

Question 1

How the North and South differed?

Answer 1

Answer is question 2 and 3

Question 2

Explain how the North and South differed economically

(institution of slavery vs. institution of factories)

Question 3

Explain how the North and South differed socially

(describe skave life vs. describe life of factory workers)

Question 4

How did the Industrial Revolution impacted the North?

Question 5

How did the cotton gin imapacted the Southern economy?

Question 6

Describe the difference between mental and physical slavery

Question 7

How did the Compromise of 1850 contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 7

1. California would enter as a free state
2. If New Mexico and Utah decided to become states, they would decide on the slavery issure based on popular soverneignty
3. Ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
4. Settled the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico

Question 8

How did the Missouri Compromise contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 8

Senator Henry Clay had an idea in 1820
1. Missouri: would enter union as slave state, Maine would enter union as free state-maintaining balance in Senate and Government
2. All of the land in the Louisiana Territorty
- Anything above 36’30 degree line of latitude would be free, and everything below would allow slavery

Question 9

How did the Fugitive Slave Act contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 9

Required ALL citizens in ALL states to catch runaway slaves

Settled the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico

Question 10

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 10

• The land north of Missouri Compromise will be divided into:
• Nebraska Territory
• Kansas Territory
• Senator Stephen Douglass created this act: settlers of each area should decide the issue of slavery by popular soverneignty

Question 10

How did Bleeding Kansas contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 10

• Pro-slavery men raided the homes of anti-slavery supporters: destroyed homes
• Anti-slavery men struck back by killing 5
• More violence continued in Kansas
• By 1856, more than 200 people were killed
• First time violence occured over issue of slavery…

Question 11

How did the Lincoln/Douglas Debates contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 11

• 1858
• series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass
• Lincoln fought for no spreading of slavery… he thought it was unconstitutional
• Douglass believed that Popular Soverneignty was appropriate because it gave people what they want
• Stephen Douglass won the Senate seat

Question 11

How did the Dred Scott Case contribute to sectionalism?

Question 12

How did John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 12

-1859-abolitionist, John Brown from Kansas led a slave revolt
- Traveled with a small group from Kansas to Harper’s Ferry, VA, where there was a gun warehouse
- Want to raid warehouse + distribute weapons to lead a revolt
- Was captured by VA tropps, 10 of his men were killed, they found him guilty of murder and treason and was sentenced to death
- His death caused controversy…martyr or terrorist?

Question 13

How did the Election of 1860 contribute to sectionalism?

Answer 13

• Stephen Douglass
• Northern democrat
• Slavery by popular sovereignty
• John C. Breckinridge
• Southern democrat
• Pro-slavery
• John Bell
• Constitutional union party
• No position on slavery
• Abraham Lincoln
• Republican (platform anti-slavery)
• Slavery will be left in the South, but can’t spread to the territories