Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 11, Lesson 1: The Sectional Conflict (pp. 314-319)
I. Different Regions, Different Needs
B. As the United States expanded into the territories of the Louisiana Purchase, conflicts arose over the regions' different economies and different ways of life.
B. Part of the reason for the conflict was that there was an equal number of slave and free states in the Senate, and neither section of the country want the other to gain a majority.
C. The Missouri Compromise allowed the two sections of the country to keep the number of free and slave states equal from 1820 to 1850.
B. The Compromise of 1850 created a harsh Fugitive Slave Law and two new slave territories, Utah and New Mexico, one new free state, California, and the end of public slave sales in Washington, D.C.
C. Although the Compromise of 1850 gave both the North and the South some of what each wanted, it did not settle the basic differences between the two regions.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The system of work in the industrial North was free labor, while the cotton economy of the South depended on slave labor.
II. A Delicate Balance
A. Northern states did not want to allow slavery in the newly created states, like Missouri, while Southerners wanted slavery to be legal.
III. Sectionalism Deepens
A. The North and the South argued over whether the lands won in the Mexican-American War should be open to slavery.
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