2/13 Warm-Up: Sectionalism, Day 2

All Year:

Prevented European colonization of land in the Western Hemisphere.

• • Missouri Compromise 

• • Monroe Doctrine 

• • Effects of War of 1812

• • Checks and balances 

All Year:

Each branch of government has some power over the other two branches; which helps to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.

• • Missouri Compromise 

• • Monroe Doctrine 

• • Effects of War of 1812

• • Checks and balances 

All Year:

Temporarily relieved sectional differences by maintaining the balance between the number of free and slave states in the Union.

• • Missouri Compromise 

• • Monroe Doctrine 

• • Effects of War of 1812

• • Checks and balances 

All Year:

U.S. manufacturing increased because of a boycott of British goods.

• • Missouri Compromise 

• •  Monroe Doctrine 

• • Effects of War of 1812

• • Checks and balances 

Yesterday - Answer the questions below.

Determine which detail describes the economic differences between the North and the South in the mid-1800s.

Groups:

(a) Life in the North

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(b) Life in the South

•   Expanded railroad system and growth of factories     

  
  

• Rapid urbanization of cities       

  
  

•  Slave labor supplied cotton to factories      

  
  

• Agricultural society with small farms and plantations       

  
  

Yesterday: John C. Calhoun believed that

• slavery was a matter that should be ruled on by the federal government

• the U.S. Constitution provided states the right to decide on the issue of slavery themselves

• states should remain a part of the Union regardless of how upset they are over ratified laws

• South Carolina should secede from the Union because it was the only state that outlawed slavery

Released STAAR® Question - Answer the question below.

Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?

• A. Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations.

• B. The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period.

• C. Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories.

• D. The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations.

Released STAAR® Question - Answer the question below.

Which quotation from this letter reveals the main reason for the surge in Irish immigration to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century?

• I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land of plenty…

• I would advise all my friends to quit Ireland…

• What you labour for is sweetened by contentment and happiness…

• There is no failure in the potato crop…