North
The lower classes of the North were made up of mostly....
What is immigrants and free African-Americans?
True or false. The majority (over 50%) of people living in the South owned slaves.
What is false. About 64% of people in the South did NOT own slaves.
This invention made it easier to harvest cotton, which led to an increase in the "need" for slavery in the American south.
What is the cotton gin?
This invention made it easier to communicate and send messages over extremely far distances almost instantly.
What is the telegram?
True or false. The North only had one industry that made them money.
What is false? The North had many different ways of making money, including shipping, trading, lumber, manufacturing, fishing, etc.
Was the South more urban (cities) or rural (farms/countryside)?
What is rural? There were very few cities in the South during the 1800s.
This law made it easier and legal for slaveowners to hire bounty hunters to track down escaped slaves and bring them back to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Which was more industrialized by the 1800s, the North or the South?
What is the North? They had many factories and big cities, while the South had very little.
What kind of people typically got rich in the North?
What type of people typically got rich in the South?
Who is large plantation/slave owners?
Were the compromises on slavery between the North and South during the 1800s successful?
What is no? The three major compromises during that time were unsuccessful and actually led to more tension between the North and South.
This invention from the 1800s made it way easier for American migrants to travel out west.
What is railroads/trains?
What are some reasons that many immigrants started moving to the northern United States in the 1800s?
What is famine, war, political persecution and religious freedom?
Aside from slaves, what group of people made up the largest percentage of the South's population in the 1800s?
Who are the poor whites? (Unskilled workers)
If a slave was able to escape the South, why would they often leave the United States entirely rather than just go to the North where slavery was illegal?
What is, because they would often face discrimination in the North, or could be kidnapped and sent back into slavery?
Why were immigrants from Europe often discriminated against by people born in America (nativists)?
What is, because they were judged for their different culture/language, they were blamed for stealing jobs.