Sectionalism review

A period of time characterized by increased regional differences between the North and the South

• Sectionalism

• Industrialization

• Colonialism

• Age of Jackson

A tax placed on foreign imports that is meant to encourage American manufacturing and business. These usually benefited the North but hurt the South.

• Excise tax

• Protective tariff

• Income tax

• Export tax

Economic activity including factories, business, and new technology. Most industries were located in the Northern states.

• Textile mill

• Frontier

• Rural

• Industrial

The countryside; an area that relies on agriculture for their main economic activity. This is mostly in the southern states.

• western

• rural

• industrial

• northern

Urban (cities)

Many immigrants Industrial (factories)

Benefited from protective tariffs (taxes on trade)

Free states

• Northern states

• Southern states

• Western states

Rural (country)

Agricultural economy (plantation farming of cash crops like tobacco and cotton)

Hurt by tariffs

Slave states

• Northern states

• Southern states

• Western states

Frontier settlements

Mining, farming, and building infrastructure (railroads, canals, roads)

Many immigrants (China and Ireland)

Tension over free/slave state status for new states

• Northern states

• Southern states

• Western states

Escaped slavery after teaching himself to read and write; because a famous orator (speaker) and writier who published a newspaper called The North Star.

• Dredd Scott

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

Escaped slavery to find freedom in the north, but returned to the south many times as a conductor of the Underground Railroad.

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

Written in 1820 by Henry Clay. This compromise allowed Missouri to be admitted as a slave state and Maine to be admitted as a free state. No new territory above the 36-30 line could have slaves.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850