Regional Economies
This region was characterized by industrialization, factories, railroads, and good port areas.
What is the North?
Passed in 1850, this law made it illegal to hide or help runaway slaves and increased opposition to slavery in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This 1820 agreement attempted to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states in Congress.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This system developed to assist escaped enslaved people into northern states and Canada where slavery was outlawed.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The invention of this machine and the free labor of enslaved persons helped the South produce 3/4 of the world's cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
Industrialization in the North resulted in available jobs in cities, which attracted this group and resulted in urbanization.
Who are immigrants?
Long growing seasons and fertile soil facilitated an economy characterized by large plantations in this region.
What is the South?
Because their freedom could not be guaranteed in the US under the Fugitive Slave Act, many free Blacks fled to this country.
What is Canada?
The admission of western territories as states was carefully managed to maintain a balance of representation between free and slave states in this branch.
What is the Senate?
Following the Revolution, governments in the North took steps to end slavery, and by 1804 it had been outlawed by all states north of this river.
What is the Ohio River?
By 1860, enslaved persons made up this fraction of the South's population, culturally and socially shaping the region.
What is one-third?
While the North had a large population and many cities, physical characteristics of the South influenced it to have this type of population.
What is a small population / few cities?
This region's economy was characterized by agricultural production, mining, and the construction of roads and canals.
What is the West/Midwest?
This law galvanized the abolition movement because citizens could be forced to do this against their will to help seize runaways.
What is be deputized / take part in organized activities to pursue slaves?
Proposed during the war with Mexico, this measure would have banned slavery in any newly acquired territory.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This 1859 event confirmed the fears of a rebellion by enslaved persons in the minds of Southerners.
What is the raid on Harpers Ferry?
Even though most people in the South did not own slaves, this group overwhelmingly supported slavery because it gave them higher social status than Black people.
Who are poor white farmers?
This many Southern states remained in the Union during the Civil War.
What is 4?
Factories in the North purchased cheap cotton from the South, meaning slavery facilitated this industry in Northern states.
What is textile manufacturing?
While the Fugitive Slave Law provided for a trial, this basic legal right was not allowed for any Black person suspected of being a fugitive.
What is their testimony?
The passage of this 1854 act undid the Compromise of 1820 and fueled sectional tensions, leading to fighting.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Responding to fighting in Kansas, this abolitionist marked a shift to the use of violence in the movement.
Who is John Brown?
Counting enslaved people, who were not considered citizens, gave the South increased political power in the Electoral College and this legislative body.
What is the House of Representatives (via the 3/5ths Compromise)?
In Northern states, notable tension existed between immigrant groups and this group as they competed for low wage jobs.
Who are free Blacks?
Because agriculture was so profitable, the South had a severe deficit in this, which hampered the region during the Civil War.
What is railroad and industrial infrastructure?
Southern support for the Fugitive Slave Law highlighted a contradiction regarding this political principle, since the law shifted control from state to federal oversight.
What are states' rights?
Southerners claimed that this specific Constitutional Amendment prohibited the federal government from interfering with their right to carry 'property' into new territories.
What is the 10th Amendment?
The Fugitive Slave Act violated what Northerners saw as their rights, but it ultimately had this effect on the institution of slavery in Northern minds.
What is it humanized slavery / brought the realities of slavery to the North?
In addition to Northern banks financing plantations, this specific type of Northern business profited heavily by treating enslaved people as a commodity to be covered.
What are insurance companies?
The expansion of the plantation system was notable in the Lower South, including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, and portions of this state.
What is Texas?