Abolitionists
Define Sectionalism
When the people of a region value their own needs above those of the country as a whole
What reform movement is most closely associated with the following; William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojouner Truth
Abolitionist movement
This was essential to the South's economic success, which is way it was deeply supported
Enslavement
Who was strongly opposed to slavery and tried to start a rebellion by raiding Harper's Ferry. He was later tried and executed with a few of his sons
John Brown
What part of the country benefited/wanted tariffs on businesses and manufactured goods
The North; tariffs on imported goods made them more expensive to buy so more people would then buy American-made goods.
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
Manufacturing (or factories.)
What was much of the South's economy based upon?
Agriculture (or farming.)
He led an armed uprising of enslaved peoples and killed several plantation owners. He was ultimately captured and executed himself.
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Who was Nat Turner
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
The Early Women's Rights movement was focused on achieving this political right for women in the U.S. They would not achieve their goal until 1919
The Right to Vote
What did many in the south feel the structure of government should be? State Power or Federal Power?
States power
Risking her life to return to the south nineteen times to help others escape to freedom
Harriet Tubman
The U.S. began to move westward with this large land purchase
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What is the Louisiana Purchase
This Supreme Court case upheld the idea that property rights were more important than human rights
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Dred Scott
This economic project in New York made it much faster for people and products to move into the Midwest, helping to grow the country
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The Erie Canal
First State to seceded from the Union.
South Carolina
He escaped enslavement, wrote a book on his life, gave speeches and wrote about the horrors of slavery, penned the famous speech; What to the Slave is the Fourth of July
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Frederick Douglass
As a result of this conflict, the U.S. received lands that make up most of the American west today. The other party received 20 Million Dollars
What is the Mexican American War?
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
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The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820.
The invention of this, caused the value of enslaved labor to grow, as now cotton could be cleaned at a much higher rate. Who invented it?
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The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? Why did the south hate her?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe,
showed the horrors of slavery
Give three reasons Southerners used to justify slavery.
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Southerners justified slavery through a mix of economic necessity, alleged biblical sanction, and racist pseudoscience, often framing it as a "positive good" rather than a necessary evil. Key justifications included the belief that the Southern economy would collapse without slave labor, that enslaved people were intellectually inferior and benefited from paternalistic care, and that slavery was a long-standing, religiously accepted institution.
What laws kept many slaves from ever wanting to cause a rebellion?
Slave codes
Why was the North ideal for industrial growth?
Water power (many rivers)
Why did the South never really industrialize?
They were making so much money already so not really interested.