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Sectionalism
Social Studies G8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | region's geography impacted its economy; North built factories, South farmed, West mined; a cause of the Civil War |
| Northern economy | textile mills, trade, factories, immigrant labor, some trade-related slave labor |
| Southern economy | plantation system, slave labor; cotton produced and sent to Northern factories |
| Western economy | mining (precious metals) and agriculture (farming and livestock) |
| Compromise of 1850 | North and South agreed; California became a free state; strict fugitive slave law was passed |
| Fugitive Slave Act | part of the Compromise of 1850; runaway slaves and free Blacks were at risk of being captured by slave hunters |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed Kansas settlers to vote whether or not to permit slavery in the territory; violence erupted; slavery prohibited |
| Slavery | major debate leading up to Civil War; Republican Party (Lincoln) against its spread into new territories |