The United States was a growing nation in terms of both population and land.

The nation was trying to live under a unified government

South was dependent on Cash Crops/ big plantations

North was dependent on small family farm/ Industrialize

North -large populations

People worked factory

Immigrants

Free Black Americans

South Agrarian-farming or plantation

Planation owners

Black slaves

Economy Cash Crop

Tobbaco

rice

Indigo -a plant that has a blue-purple color

Cotton

Slaves' treatment depended on their owner

they treated kindly

They were disrespected

slaves did not have rights and did not have freedoms

The South was dependent on slavery

Slaves worked on plantations in fields harvesting crops

or in the master's house

Field workers

women

children

Resistance to slavery

resist- to refuse to accept something

Rebellions-to go against those in power

Nat Turner led Turners Rebellion in Virginia

all the rebels were executed

Most slaves chose to run away rather than to fight

Run away to the North

pretend to be sick

break farming tools

work slower

Missouri Compromise led to the civil war

northern states wanted no more slave states.

south wanted more slave states

3 step to become a state

1 territory -5000 adults males

60,000 free inhabitants then they had to make a state constituion

abolitionist

livestock

slave spiritual