Economic Differences
What type of economy did the North have?
An industrial economy based on factories and manufacturing.
The North had large cities and a growing class of these workers. What were they?
Immigrants and factory workers
This political issue caused a rift between North and South: North supported it, south opposed it.
Tariffs
Which region (North or South) had a more diverse population due to a large influx of immigrants in the early 19th century?
The North
These five states, known as what, had slavery, but stayed in the Union despite strong pressure from both sides.
Border States: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia
What major agricultural product was primarily grown in the South?
Cotton
The South’s social hierarchy was based on what type of land?
Plantation land
The North was in favor of what type of government?
Having a strong central government.
These cultural movements in the North focused on social change, including the abolition of slavery and the advancement of women’s rights.
Reform Movements
This Union general, known for his leadership in the western theater of the war, later became the 18th President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant
The North had many factories that produced these products.
Manufactured goods (such as textiles, clothing, machinery, and iron products).
This was the general attitude towards education in the South, especially for enslaved people.
Limited Education
Which region (North or South) believed in having more states rights?
The South
The South’s culture was deeply tied to this economic system and its social structure.
The plantation life and agrarian traditions.
This Confederate general led the Southern forces after Virginia seceded and was known for his strategic brilliance until his surrender in 1865
Robert E. Lee
These two industries were key to the Northern economy.
Manufacturing (factories) and Transportation (railroads and canals).
This group in the North advocated for the abolition of slavery.
Abolitionists (such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William Lloyd Garrison).
Southerners argued that tariffs benefited these industries in the North.
Northern manufacturing industries.
In the North, these literary and artistic movements flourished with writers like Herman Melville, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Transcendentalism and Romanticism.
This event marked the start of the Civil War in 1861 when Confederate forces attacked a Union stronghold.
The Battle of Fort Sumter
What was the souths economy primarily based on?
The plantation system and enslaved labor.
The South’s population was primarily made up of these individuals?
White landowners, enslaved African Americans, and poor farmers.
This was the political party in the North that supported the abolition of slavery.
The Republican Party (which emerged in the 1850s as an anti-slavery party).
This region (North or South) had strong cultural ties to European customs and aristocratic traditions, especially those related to landownership and family legacy.
The South
This battle, fought in 1862, was one of the bloodiest single-day battles in U.S. history, resulting in a strategic Union victory and leading to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
The Battle of Antietam