Sectionalism I
This brought on the rise of factories and the shift from human labor to reliance on machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
"The warm climate, rich soil, and abundant irrigation from rivers" describes which areas geography?
What is the South?
This invention made cotton production more profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
This is what abolitionists wanted.
What is the end of slavery?
Dred Scott did not win his court case because he was not considered _______.
What is a citizen
This word means a strong loyalty to one region.
What is Sectionalism?
What made the North the ideal location for mills?
What are swift moving rivers.
There were more railroads in the ______.
Double points if you explain why.
What is the North.
Factory owners in the Northeast needed railroads to ship their manufactured goods to territories in the Midwest, so building railroads in these regions was very profitable. Because the Northeast had more factories and cities than the South, it also had more railroads.
(true/false)
False
This led to the expansion of cities in the NORTHEAST.
What is the rapid growth of factories
Northerners supported tariffs for this reason.
It taxed imported goods, making goods made in the North cheaper and more desirable.
This was the anti-slavery newspaper published 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison.
What is The Liberator?
This was an argument Southerners used to defend Slavery.
Options include:
--their treatment of enslaved African Americans was no worse or even better than Northern factory owners’ treatment of immigrants and other workers. --it benefited enslaved African Americans because they would not be able to work for wages in the United States.