Civil War Era & Reconstruction

This term means "to get rid of slavery"

• Suffrage

• Secede

• Abolition

• Reform

Leader of the Underground Railroad who was notable for helping slaves escape to freedom in the North.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Dorothea Dix

• Jefferson Davis

The region was known for its heavy investment in industry and manufacturing centers.

• North

• South

This region was characterized by its large scale investment in plantation agriculture. It grew wealthy from the use of slaves growing cash crops.

• North

• South

Why did plantation agriculture never develop in Northern states?

• The region did not believe in slavery and refused to invest in industries that supported slavery.

• The region's climate was not well-suited for large scale farming

• The region was incredibly religious and the use of slaves violated their beliefs

• The region lacked the technological innovations to successfully farm

Why did the Southern states not develop centers of manufacturing?

• The plantation system was very profitable so southerners invested in agriculture

• The Southern states lacked the technology necessary to build factories

• The region rejected the modern world and refused to invest in factories

• This region lacked the natural resources to develop large scale manufacturing

How did westward expansion contribute to sectionalism in the United States?

• As the nation expanded west, debate over if slavery would expand to new territories divided the nation.

• Southern representatives in Congress accepted a Northern deal to prohibit slavery in all new western territories.

• Northern states agreed to allow slavery to expand to some new western states.

• Slavery would be permitted in all new territories if voters in each state approved it.

Why was slavery introduced to North America?

• To compete with the cheap labor of Native Americans

• To provide a free source of labor to grow cash crops

• To compete with the growing, profitable Spanish Empire

• To avoid conflict with French and Dutch settlers

As the United States expanded...

• debate over how each state would represented expanded

• the question of "Would slavery expand?" arose

• settlers moved west to profit from trade with Native Americans

• the United States reached a land deal with Mexico to maintain peace

How did the Missouri Compromise maintain peace between the North and South?

• It abolished slavery in all territories acquired from Mexico and Britain

• It drew a line across the nation, allowing slavery in the South but banning it in the North

• It outlawed slavery in all new territories west of the Mississippi River

• It allowed each new territory to vote on if it would allow slavery or not