North and South SPRITE. New Seats Come to me to get your new seat!
Transcript of North and South SPRITE. New Seats Come to me to get your new seat!
Bell Ringer
• 1. How can people in different regions of the country have different attitudes and beliefs?
• 2. How can these differences in relationships affect the country both in the past and in the present?
Objective
• Students will be able to analyze the social, political, and economic differences between the North and the South leading up to the Civil War.
The North
• Larger towns and cities• Industrial • Workers worked for wages
• The railroad transported manufactured goods• Large amounts of immigrants• Opposed slavery• Slavery would compete with jobs• Slavery would reduce the status of whites who
needed jobs
The South
• Rural and agricultural• Plantations and small farms
• Rivers for transportation of goods• Few immigrants because slavery didn’t leave many job
opportunities• The majority of the South’s population consisted of slaves• Southerners were in support of slavery • For economic reasons-production of agriculture• Feared that freedom would mean a social and economic
revolution and destruction of the South
The Big Debate
• Slave states v. free states• As we moved west the North and South had extensive
debates in Congress over whether new states would be slave states or free states.
• Compromise of 1850• North: California was free
• South: Fugitive Slave Law-Escaped slaves had to be returned to masters or northerners would be prosecuted
• Popular Sovereignty: The right of states to decide their needs via voting
Northern Reactions
• Fugitive Slave Act: 6th amendment not protected• Northerners protected escaped slaves• Sent fugitives to Canada• Passed Personal Liberty Laws: Forbade
prison/gave fair trials• Underground Railroad• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by abolitionist, Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Stephen Douglas
• In favor of popular sovereignty and states’ rights (10th Amendment)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act• Popular Sovereignty
• Problems: Repealed Missouri Compromise (all states north of Missouri=free, south=slave
The Republican Party
• Founded by Horace Greely
• Anti-Slavery
• United in opposing Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Conservatives wanted to resurrect Missouri Compromise
• Abraham Lincoln