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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tom's Cabin profoundly impacted American society by accelerating the abolitionist movement, severely intensifying sectional divisions over slavery, and helping to lay the ideological groundwork for the Civil War
Southerners were primarily upset over Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, because they viewed it as an unfair and slanderous attack on their entire way of life.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which compelled Northerners to participate in returning escaped slaves, effectively making the entire nation complicit in slavery
Slavery
Under slavery, enslaved people—primarily those of African descent in the Americas—were subjected to systemic discrimination that stripped them of basic human rights and legal status
Abolitionists functioned as an extension of the church by translating deeply held religious convictions into direct social and political action
A cash crop is an agricultural product grown primarily for sale and profit rather than personal subsistence
Election of 1860
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Popular Sovereignty is the political principle that a government's power is created and sustained by the saying of its people, who are the middle of all political power
Around 6.9 million are of the eligible population, and had the option to represent the nation at the polls that year. Minorities, Women, and Slaves were not able to vote.
Sectionalism
New states cause regional division because they were being added and were set far behind the rest of the states that were improving.
Sectionalism is an exaggerated, narrow-minded devotion to the interests of a specific region over those of the entire nation.
The North had more rocky soil which led to manufacturing and the south had more fertile soil which led to plantations. 
States Rights
The Fugitive Slave Act upset Northern Abolitionists because it forced slave states to participate in slavery and denied runaways.
The 10th Amendment supports states rights by keeping the power between the states governments equal and fair.
To make a better union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, help defense, build up general welfare, and secure liberty.
Industry v. Agriculture
The North’s workforce was defined by a rapid shift from farm to factory, known as the Industrial Revolution
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The Southern workforce has historically been defined by a deep-rooted agricultural identity, but it has undergone a dramatic shift toward industrialization and service-based roles over the last 150 years
Tariffs
The South opposed federal tariffs because they significantly raised the cost of imported manufactured goods, reduced foreign demand for Southern agricultural exports, and disproportionately benefited Northern industrial interests
Northern states supported high tariffs (taxes on imported goods) primarily to protect their emerging industrial economy from cheap British competition.
A tariff is a tax or duty imposed by a government on imported goods and services, acting as a trade barrier to make foreign products more expensive
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