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SECTIONALISM
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Lowell Mills Opened
Lowell Mills produced yarn and looms, they were wooven with machines and many young women worked there. This started the Industrial Revolution in the North while the south still used slavery. -
Tariff Act of 1828
European goods were more expensive, the south had to buy them while the North made their own. The South was angry because they still supported slavery and had to pay more. The tariff benefitted the North and had a negative impact on the South. -
Immigration
Most people that had lived in worse countries had started to move to America.
Immigrants dont want to become slaves by moving to the south so they went to the North. -
Fugitive Slave Act
California was added as a free state, D.C. prohibited slave trading. This helped slaves travel from southern slave states to free northern states and Canada and this further divided the North and the South. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to decide whether they wanted to be slave states or free states. This divided the North and the South by slavery. -
Transcontinental Railroad
it was debated wether or not it is nesscary to build railroads in America to make trasportation easier. The South didn't support it because they used rivers for transportation. While the North supported it because it increased the advancement of the North. -
South Carolina Sucedes
South Carolina broke away from the Union.
