Evaluating the cultural, economic, and political issues that divided the nation, including tariffs, slavery, the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, and the role of the states in the Union.
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Protecting and expanding slavery
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What was the cause of the tensions between the northern and southern states?
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manufacturing, industry, textile mills, exporting or selling finished goods or items, banking
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What was the economic base for the northern states?
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Protecting and expanding slavery
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manufacturing, industry, textile mills, exporting or selling finished goods or items, banking
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agriculture of cash crops that required a large slave workforce to be successful they relied on imported goods to meet their needs
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They protected northern manufactured goods from foreign competition - United States goods could be sold at a cheaper price
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It made the southerners pay high prices for their finished products or good.
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States that do not have slavery and want to prohibit the expansion of slavery
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States that have slaves and promotes the extension of slavery
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created an a line for free and slave states ; Missouri added as a slave state, Maine added as a free state
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--California entered the Union as a free state
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It repealed the Compromise of 1850, allowed for new states entering the United State to determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state (popular sovereignty)
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The Republican Party formed to stop the spread of slavery.
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fighting broke out in Kansas over slavery
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concept in which states could nullify, or void, any federal law they deemed unconstitutional
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South Carolina wanted to succeed from the United States because they argued the right to nullify, or cancel, a federal tariff.
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South Carolina states that a state had the right to nullify (make Void) the Tariff of 1832
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to leave the union
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Planned a slave revolt in Richmond where slaves would gain all the weapons in Richmond make Virginia a state for blacks
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A slave from Southampton County, Virginia. He started the most violent slave revolt in the country. They killed 60 white people.
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Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser
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They increased the fear of whites living in the South and laws were passed restricting the rights of free African Americans
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A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
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a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
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A former slave who ran away and returned as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She made 19 trips south and never lost a slave!
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The first national woman's rights convention, the site where the declaration of women's rights was written
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A prominent advocate of women's rights, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
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the social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association