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15.1 Growing Tensions Between North and South

15.1 Growing Tensions Between North and South. North and South Take Different Paths. Economies of North and South are different: North more industry, South more agricultural/plantation Growth of industries lead to rapid growth of Northern cities, and much of this was from immigration.

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15.1 Growing Tensions Between North and South

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  1. 15.1 Growing Tensions Between North and South

  2. North and South Take Different Paths • Economies of North and South are different: North more industry, South more agricultural/plantation • Growth of industries lead to rapid growth of Northern cities, and much of this was from immigration. • Many immigrants and Easterners moved west to start farms. • Transportation system such as railroads and canals ran east-west. • All of this helped the North and Midwest to keep strong ties.

  3. In the South, a few wealthy planters controlled the economy, politics and society. • Money bought power (politics). • Money insured that their children would have the best education, would rise to power, would maintain the same system. • Their income was based on slave labor, and so they invested in slaves instead of industry.

  4. Anti-slavery and Racism • Abolitionists wanted slavery gone immediately. • Many other Northerners were not that extreme, and some opposed slavery for economic reasons. • They were afraid that the free labor of the slaves would cause regular workers to have to work for less or free.

  5. Wilmot Proviso • Northerners believed that Southerners wanted to spread slavery into all of the land that might be acquired from the Mexican War. • David Wilmot of Pennsylvania proposed the Wilmot Proviso which outlawed slavery in any territory that was gained from the war.

  6. Southerners claimed this was unconstitutional since slaves were viewed as property. • The proviso passed the House because the North had more representatives, but was killed in the Senate which had the same amount of senators from both North and South.

  7. Controversy Over Territories • When the Mexican War was over the new territories caused a problem with the balance between slave and free states. • California wanted to be admitted as a free state which would give the North more states. • The South wanted California cut in half. • In 1850 California was admitted as a free state.

  8. Compromise of 1850 (Henry Clay) • California will be admitted as a free state and slavery abolished in DC. • Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico. • It would pass the Fugitive Slave Act which made helping escaping slaves illegal. • Daniel Webster and Stephen Douglas supported the bill and it became law.

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