What conflicts developed between the northern and the southern states in the years following the Ame

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What conflicts developed between the northern and
the southern states in the years following the
American Revolution?
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Conflicts arose between the northern and southern
states and within Virginia over

• states rights
• and
• slavery

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Some states were slave states, where slavery was
legal and slaves had no rights at all.
Slave states were Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
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The slave states were in the south, where the
economy was agricultural.
A large southern plantation
Agricultural farming
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Paddle-wheeled steamboats carried crops to
markets all over the country.
tobacco
Crops like tobacco and cotton were grown on large
plantations, with most of the work done by
slaves. If the owners had to pay the slaves for
their labor, they could not have made so much
money.
A plantation house
A field worker
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Other states were free states, where it was not
legal to own slaves, and everyone had to be paid
for his or her work.
Free states were Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois,Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas, California, and Oregon.
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The economy in the northern part of the United
States was industrialized.
Industrial based on the factory system
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Most of the free states were in the northern part
of the United States. In the north, factories
and cities were important places to make money
and to live.
Factories did not depend on slavery to make
money, even though children were often employed
at a young age and paid very little for a very
long day.
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Why did the northern and southern states take
different positions over the expansion of slavery
into the new territories?
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Conflict arose between slave states and free
states, because the country was growing westward.

Territories new lands in the U.S that were not
yet states
Would the new land be like the South, with large
plantations and many slaves to do the work
for no pay?
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Representatives from slave states tried to make
laws in the U.S Congress, that would allow new
states or territories to be slave states too.
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This is a page from an abolitionist newspaper.
Many people thought that slavery was very wrong.
They wanted to abolish, or do away with, slavery.
They were called abolitionists.
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They lived mostly in the North, where people did
not depend on slavery to make money. They wrote,
spoke, and raised money to fight slavery. Their
cause was called abolition.
Frederick Douglass was a former slave who had
successfully escaped. A free African American
who lived in the North, he spoke and wrote
articles condemning slavery.
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The abolition movement gained strength in the
North, and northern representatives to Congress
wanted to make laws not allowing slavery in the
new territories in the West.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to
inform people of the horrors of slavery
William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist
newspaper, The Liberator
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Conflict increased in the United States Congress
between representatives of the northern and
southern states.
Born a slave in upstate New York, Sojourner Truth
gave herself a new name that explained why she
traveled and gave speeches against slavery.
A map from 1850 shows how the United States was
divided.
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Southern representatives wanted Congress to pass
laws allowing slavery in the new territories.
Therefore the northern and the southern states
took different positions about the expansion of
slavery into the new territories.
Northern representatives did not want slavery to
grow any more. They wanted to pass laws that
banned, or outlawed slavery in the new
territories.
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Moving west in a covered wagon
What else did the North and South have conflict
over?
A flat-bottomed river boat
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The northern and southern states also disagreed
over states rights.
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Southern states wanted a state to make almost all
of the laws for its people, with the U.S.
government having little control.
The South especially wanted to have very low
taxes on things brought into the United States
from other countries.
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But the north wanted high taxes on goods brought
into the United States. That way, people all
over the country would buy goods made in the
northern factories, not made in Europe. The
north wanted everyone, north and south, to buy
goods made in the northern United States.
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Northern legislators in the Congress tried to get
laws passed that would tax goods brought into the
country from Europe. Then the northern factories
could make more money on the goods they
manufactured.