another sectionalism review

Question 1

Northern Economy:

Answer 1

-Factories/Manufacturing and Industry
-Paid labor(workers)
-Used the South’s cotton in their textile factories
-Railroads and ports improved transportation which increased manufacturing

Question 2

Southern Economy:

Answer 2

-Good climate
-large plantations
-Cotton demand went up, so the slave demand went up

Question 3

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 3

• In 1828, tariffs were passed to raise the price of imported goods

Question 4

Compromise of 1850

Answer 4

-California admitted as a free state
-Slave trade in Washington D.C. would end
-Stronger Fugitive Slave Laws would be passed to help slave holders
-Utah and New Mexico would determine slavery by popular sovereignty

Question 5

Missouri Compromise

Answer 5

-Outlawed slavery north of 36”30 Line - except Missouri
-Add a Free state at the same time - Maine
-Maintained the balance of power in the U.S. Senate between free and slave states

Question 6

Daniel Webster

Answer 6

-Worked with Henry Clay to make the Compromise of 1850
-Believed that it was important to keep the U.S. together

Question 7

Why did the South (SC) secede in 1860?

Answer 7

Southerners felt they had no more voice in the national government; that no one would protect their interests

Question 8

Republican Party

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Democrat Party splits

Answer 9

Northern - Stephen Douglas
Southern - John Breckinridge

Question 10

Constitutional Union Party

Answer 10

John Bell