South
Relied on this to work plantations
Slaves
Economy was based on this
Industries/Factories
Land west of this river
Mississippi River
Inventor of the Cotton gin, caused slavery to increase
Eli Whitney
Compromise in 1820 that kept balance of slave/free states at 11 each
Missouri Compromise
This plant/seed became "King in The South"
Cotton
Relied on this to work in factories
Immigrant labor
These people became the first to move West
Fur Traders
Wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, outlining the evils of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Act in 1850 which made it illegal to help runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
This was the basis of the South's economy
Agriculture
Supported these to protect American businesses
Tariffs
Western U.S. was divided on this issue
Slavery
Slave who was denied his freedom by the Supreme Ct in 1857
Dred Scott
This state entered the Union as a free state in 1850 due to this
Compromise of 1850
Relied on this for transporting goods
Rivers/Water travel
National Road/Canals/RR
TYpes of transportation in the North
Purchased in 1803 for $15million by Jefferson
Louisiana Territtory
First Republican to be elected President in 1860
Abe Lincoln
Act which said these territories could decide on slavery based on popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Were against these taxes on imports
Tariffs
Population grew in these
Cities
Region was known as this due to its grain/wheat production
"breadbasket"
Led a raid to free slaves in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859
John Brown
The pre civil War period in America is called this
Antebellum America