Sectional DifferencesWhen the Era of Good Feelings has ended…

The Missouri Compromise• Slavery has not been an issue since Constitutional Convention• By 1820, there were an equal number of free and slave states.• Abolitionist movement growing.

• Missouri & Maine will be admitted at the same time.• Line drawn at Missouri to determine future of slavery.• 36° 30´ latitude line.

Industrial Revolution• Begins in England• Textiles• Steam Power• Iron Manufacture

• Interchangeable Parts • Eli Whitney

• Mass Production

Industrial Revolution• Lowell System• Modern Factory• Highly organized

The North• Societal Changes• Owners of Industry• Laborers

• First Unions Develop• Anti-slavery Movement• Emancipation

The South• Based on Agriculture• Plantation Owners• Planters• Farmers• Slaves

• “The Necessary Evil”

King Cotton

Sectional Differences• Differing views on:• Land

• Free land vs Market Value• Tariffs• Slavery

The American System• High Tariff• National Bank• System of Internal

Improvements• Roads• Bridges• Canals

• Settling of Western Lands• Promoted by Clay &

Calhoun

Transportation• National Road• Conestogas

• Erie Canal• Railroad building to begin soon.