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T.I.S.S.U.E.S. - Coggle Diagram
T.I.S.S.U.E.S.
Tariffs
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Southern states were against tariffs because they did not want to pay a higher price for goods and they believe Great Britain would stop buying raw materials, like cotton, from the Southern states in retaliation
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Southerners were upset over the novel because stowe was a northerner who knew nothing about how slaves were treated and how the southerner way of life was like
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The result of the popularity of Stowe’s novel was Northerners gained in numbers and got more letters for the outlaw of slavery.
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Slavery
Enslaved people were discriminated against through what ranged from inadequate food and shelter to physical punishments.
A cash crop is a crop which is grown to sell for profit, rather than to be used by the farmer for personal use.
Slavery was inhumane, which went against Christian beliefs, so the church supported the abolition of slavery, which made them abolitionists.
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Election of 1860
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The definition of popular sovereignty was the right to choose if slavery was allowed in that state or not
Lincoln’s thoughts on the expansion of slavery was that slavery could stay in the south but could not expand north
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Sectionalism
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The new states caused regional division by making the Northern states worry about the increasing power from the South and that the more states added to the South would allow more and more slaved people
The geographical differences between the North and the South different enviroments, economy, agreements, needs, morals, and divisions.
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Industry v Agriculture
The Northern workforce consisted of immigrants who were paid very low wages (free laborers) and had mostly factories.
The Southern climate had a long growing season and fertile soil, which made large scale agriculture profitable.
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States' Rights
The 10th amendment protected states rights by giving them the power to choose for themselves, rather than the federal government choosing for them, unless it comes to something put in the constitution.
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The Fugitive Slave Act upset Northern abolitionists because it made it much hard for slaves to escape and they wanted slavery to be illegal, so this was a step in the wrong direction.
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