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Sectional Differences

Sectional Differences. When the Era of Good Feelings has ended…. The Missouri Compromise. Slavery has not been an issue since Constitutional Convention By 1820, there were an equal number of free and slave states. Abolitionist movement growing.

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Sectional Differences

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  1. Sectional Differences When the Era of Good Feelings has ended…

  2. The Missouri Compromise • Slavery has not been an issue since Constitutional Convention • By 1820, there were an equal number of free and slave states. • Abolitionist movement growing. • Missouri & Maine will be admitted at the same time. • Line drawn at Missouri to determine future of slavery. • 36° 30´ latitude line.

  3. Industrial Revolution • Begins in England • Textiles • Steam Power • Iron Manufacture • Interchangeable Parts • Eli Whitney • Mass Production

  4. Industrial Revolution • Lowell System • Modern Factory • Highly organized

  5. The North • Societal Changes • Owners of Industry • Laborers • First Unions Develop • Anti-slavery Movement • Emancipation

  6. The South • Based on Agriculture • Plantation Owners • Planters • Farmers • Slaves • “The Necessary Evil”

  7. King Cotton

  8. Sectional Differences • Differing views on: • Land • Free land vs Market Value • Tariffs • Slavery

  9. The American System • High Tariff • National Bank • System of Internal Improvements • Roads • Bridges • Canals • Settling of Western Lands • Promoted by Clay & Calhoun

  10. Transportation • National Road • Conestogas • Erie Canal • Railroad building to begin soon.

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