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Regional Differences
Agricultural, slavery
Just trying
to survive
Industrial, Dense
population, anti-slavery
• Nationalism – a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country. Loyalty to one’s nation as a whole.
• Sectionalism – the loyalty to the interest of your own region or section of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.
What kind of differences were there between the regions as the nation
grew?
–What kind of political differences?
–What kind of economic differences?
–What kind of social differences?
Complete the chart as we view and discuss the following information.
Political Economic Social
North
South
West
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Political– It supported high tariffs to protect
manufacturing.– It supported federally funded internal
improvements like canals, roads, and railroads so they could have transportation to their markets.– In the 1840’s and 1850’s they began to
oppose slavery.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Economic–Agriculture was diversified (wheat, corn, dairy).
It was more scientific and Northerners developed more farm machines that the South did.– Fishing and whaling were still important to the
Northeast.–Manufacturing• It replaced shipping as the main business of
the Northeast.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Economy (Transportation of goods)
• The transportation system was designed to get goods to the ocean.
• The main transportation in the South was rivers, streams, and intercoastal routes.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Social• Immigration served as one of the major
social issues in the North.• This immigration tended to create low
wages and encouraged child labor.• Women’s Suffrage and Abolition of slavery
were other social reforms the North was focused on.
• Abolitionists believed that slavery was morally wrong.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Political–Protecting slavery was of the utmost
importance to Southerners.– Fighting tariffs was paramount to
Southerners since tariffs increased the price of goods imported from Europe.– Southerners were against internal
improvements because it cost money and it did not meet their transportation needs.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
EconomicHome of the “cotton kingdom”—Cotton
replaced linen and wool as the major fiber for cloth.
Tobacco still was the major crop in the Upper South.
Rice and sugar were still important crops in South Carolina and Louisiana.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Economy (Transportation of goods)
• The transportation system was designed to get goods to the ocean.
• The main transportation in the South was rivers, streams, and intercoastal routes.
• Slavery was an important part of the Southern economy. The feeling was that slavery must follow expansion.
• The South was agriculturally self-sufficient.• It provided its own corn, wheat, and livestock.• There was little manufacturing in the South.• The economy was still tied to Great Britain.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Social- Slavery served as one of the largest social
issues of the south- Not everyone was in favor of slavery, but most
were in favor of states rights- Only 1 in 4 Texans owned slaves
• Middle class farmers and lower class farmers supported slavery even though few had twenty slaves or more.–They hoped to have slaves themselves.
–They were afraid of slave rebellion and competition from free blacks.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST
Political–Westerners wanted low priced or free land
in the West.–They supported federally financed internal
transportation improvements.–The West tended to support protective
tariffs to pay for internal improvements without raising the price of federal land.–The Northwest and Southwest disagreed
on slavery.
Economic–Fur traders were the first Americans to
move west.–Frontier farms followed. The farmers
typically lived in log cabins and they were basically self-sufficient.–The economy of the West depended on
turnpikes, canals, steamboats, and railroads
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST
• Social– In the wake of the War of 1812, many nationalistic
Americans believed that God intended for them to spread democracy and Christianity across the entire continent.