Key Characteristics
Big cities with large immigrant populations
North
Sailed the first commercial steamboat, the Clermont
Robert Fulton
a device used for raising and lowering boats
canal lock
What invention helped spread the cotton industry to the Deep South?
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Conflict developed over acceptance of this state as slave or free and was resolved with this compromise
Missouri Compromise
Mining as an important economic activity.
West
Made the Steel Plow making farming easier
John Deer
federal laws allowing the capture and return of enslaved people who escaped to free states many northerners refused to follow this and free African Americans were wrongly forced into slavery
Fugitive Slave Act
Gold found in California caused a rush of these “miners” in 1849.
49ers
Maine was admitted as a free state
Missouri Compromise
An economy based heavily on agriculture and the unpaid labor of enslaved people
South
Made the Steel Plow making farming easier
Samuel F.B. Morse
popular sovereignty
The people who live there get to vote on it
This Act gave free public land to settlers who lived on and farmed the land.
Homestead Act of 1862
California was admitted as a free state
fugitive slave act
no slave trade in D.C
Compromise of 1850
Has many factories and mills
North
Invented the horse drawn reaper to harvest grain
Cyrus McCormick
300,000+ people who migrated to Northern California to prospect for gold
49ers
This invention permitted one farmer to do the work of five hired hands.
Mechanical Reaper
What was the name give to the violence between proslavery and anti-slavery settlements in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
Connected to the East by both rail and telegraph.
West
Developed a method of treating rubber called vulcanization
Charles Goodyear
pro-slavery activists from Missouri who illegally crossed into the Kansas Territory during the 1850s to force Kansas to become a slave state
Border Ruffians
it had great economic impact, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean (via the Hudson River), and made New York City a major commercial hub
Erie Canal
The act of placing the interests of your region ahead of the needs of the nation as a whole.
Sectionalism