Who
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Textiles
cloth/clothing
Protective Tariffs
Placed tariffs on imported products to encourage/force people to buy Northern products. Had a large negative impact on the South.
Missouri Compromise
1820
Samuel Slater
Slater, a 21-year-old English mechanic, memorized the plans for a machine for spinning cotton thread and escaped in disguise to Rhode Island. With the backing of a wealthy businessman, Slater managed to recreate the machine in 1791 and built the first factory in America.
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney and Samuel Slater
Missouri Compromise
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state; the territory of Maine would be admitted as a free state to reestablish the sectional balance in Congress. The rest of the Louisiana Territory above latitude 36 30’ would be free territory.
Whigs
Industrialists, bankers, skilled workers, planters, and northern farmers with free-soil principles from both the north and south
Temperance
During the Industrial Revolution
Temperance
Was used to instill the virtues of sobriety and punctuality for a disciplined work force. This was most advantageous for the North. This was another philosophical between the North and South.
Gag Resolution
Southern Congressmen
Nat Turner
Bloodiest slave rebellion in US History. When it was over, 60 whites had been clubbed, axed, and shot to death; 55 of Turner’s followers were executed.
Cotton Gin
Important invention for the cotton farms in the areas between southwest Virginia and central Texas
Cotton Gin
1793
Whigs
One of two parties that started to become distinctly sectional political parties -- one Northern and one Southern. If this happened, the country would split in two.
Tallmadge Amendment
James Tallmadge
Henry Clay
Created the Missouri Compromise
Free Soilers
Northern states where farmers were worried about the competition with slavery
The Liberator
January 1, 1831
John Deere
John Deere of Illinois invented the polished steel plow capable of breaking the thick layer of prairie grass to expose surprisingly fertile soil. This invention, combined with the expansion of railroads into the west, would soon open the Northern Plains to settlement and establish free states.
Democrats
Led by Andrew Jackson. Included unskilled northern laborers, Catholics who rejected efforts to reform their drinking habits and force their children into public schools, poor small farmers who distrusted cities and banks, and planters who feared a strong government might interfere with slavery.
Andrew Jackson
Leader of democrats
Internal Improvements
Roads, canals and railroad mostly in the north to aid industry
John Deere
1837
Gag Resolution
Attempting to stop the slavery debate at the federal level, in 1836 Southern Congressmen passed the Gag Resolution in the US House of Representatives. It forbad all discussion of slavery in the House. Northern politicians were outraged by this attack on the First Amendment right to free speech and waged an 8-year battle to repeal it.