3. What conflicts developed between the northern and the southern states in the years following the American Revolution?

4. Conflicts arose between the northern and southern states and within Virginia over states’ rights and slavery

5. Slave states were Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Some states were slave states states, where slavery was legal and slaves had no rights at all.

6. A large southern plantation The slave states were in the south, where the economy was agricultural. Agricultural: farming

7. A plantation house tobacco A field worker Paddle-wheeled steamboats carried crops to markets all over the country. 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.

8. Other states were free states 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.

9. The economy in the northern part of the United States was industrialized. Industrial: based on the factory system

10. 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.

11. Why did the northern and southern states take different positions over the expansion of slavery into the new territories?

12. 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?

13. 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.

14. Many people thought that slavery was very wrong. They wanted to abolish, or do away with, slavery. They were called abolitionists. This is a page from an abolitionist newspaper.

15. 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.

16. 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. William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to inform people of the horrors of slavery

17. 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. Conflict increased in the United States Congress between representatives of the northern and southern states. Conflict increased in the United States Congress between representatives of the northern and southern states.

18. Therefore the northern and the southern states took different positions about the expansion of slavery into the new territories. Southern representatives wanted Congress to pass laws allowing slavery in 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.

19. What else did the North and South have conflict over? Moving west in a covered wagon A flat-bottomed river boat

20. The northern and southern states also disagreed over states’ rights.

21. The South especially wanted to have very low taxes on things brought into the United States from other countries. Southern states wanted a state to make almost all of the laws for its people, with the U.S. government having little control.

22. 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.

23. 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.