A Nation Divided

The Northern part of the nation industry and ___________ became very powerful.

• agriculture

• tourism

• businesses

• government

The cities in the North were

• growing and where the most powerful men lived.

• small and mostly where runaway slaves went.

• places to visit but not to stay

In the South....

(check any answers that apply)

• cotton was the largest cash crop

• slavery was outlawed

• wealth was gained by farming large plantations.

• slaves did most of the work

Slavery was outlawed in the ____________________.

The North and the South both wanted government to do different things for them.

• True

• False

The National Government allowed

• Slaves to go free if they wanted to.

• The North to tell the South what to do.

• Each state to decided whether they wanted to be a slave state or a free state.

• The South to tell the North what to do.

Maryland was a ______________ state.

Maryland....

(Check all that apply)

• Was part North and part South

• Wanted to Avoid a War because many battles would be fought here.

• Firmly supported slavery

• Traded with the North and the South

Baltimore was becoming

• had no opinion about slavery.

• more like a Northern City, had more free African Americans.

• more like the South

The people on the southern tobacco plantations

• were ready to set their slaves free.

• depended on slave labor to plant, harvest and transport tobacco and other cash crops.

• worked in the fields and hired people to help them.

• were looking to stop farming such huge plantations.