The Southern Economy
The Southern economy was based on this.
Agriculture
The Industrial Revolution was a change from making things by hand to making things this way.
By machine
The Wilmot Proviso of 1846 proposed banning slavery in this area.
Land acquired from Mexico
The main effect of the Missouri Compromise was that it did this to the debate over slavery.
Temporarily ended it.
In his "House Divided" speech, Lincoln said the country could not survive being split between these two things.
Slave states and free states
This is the ONE geographic feature the South did NOT have that helped power Northern mills.
Fast-moving rivers
Unlike the South, the North favored this.
A strong national government.
This state's application for statehood in 1850 created a crisis because it would upset the balance between slave and free states.
California
The 36°30′ parallel was an imaginary line that showed this.
Where slavery was allowed and where it was banned
The Supreme Court decided in the Dred Scott case that African Americans could not do this.
Sue in federal court
This crop became the most important in the South after the cotton gin was invented.
Cotton
By 1850, this was the fastest and most efficient way to move goods in the North.
Railroad
When California applied for statehood, the South was afraid of losing this in Congress.
Voting power.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act upset people in the North because it allowed this in territories where slavery had been banned.
Slavery
John Brown raided Harpers Ferry hoping to start this.
A rebellion by enslaved people to end slavery
Instead of building factories, Southerners spent their money on these two things.
Land and enslaved people
Most immigrants chose to settle in the North because they could find these.
Jobs in mills and factories
Henry Clay's plan to end the deadlock over California's statehood was called this.
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Law, part of the Compromise of 1850, required Northerners to do this.
Return escaped enslaved people to their owners
This author wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The South didn't want the government to pay for roads and canals because they thought only this region would benefit.
The North
These two hardships pushed people to leave Northern Europe and come to the U.S. between 1845 and 1860.
War and famine
The Compromise of 1850 gave the South this controversial law in exchange for admitting California as a free state.
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Civil War officially began when this happened.
South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter
These debates made Lincoln famous and brought the issue of slavery into focus.
The Lincoln- Douglas debates.