1. Which economic contrast deepened the divide between the North and the South?
2. Why did Southern slaveholders often resist efforts to limit slavery?
3. What arrangement did the Missouri Compromise establish in 1820?
What economic system developed in the North?
An industrial, wage-labor economy.
What labor and export supported wealthy Southern plantation owners?
Enslaved labor and cotton exports.
How did Southern slaveholders view slavery’s role in their wealth and political power?
They regarded it as essential to both.
What did the 1820 Missouri Compromise establish about Missouri and Maine?
Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What slavery restriction did the 1820 Missouri Compromise impose?
It barred slavery in most Louisiana Purchase lands north of 36°30′.
What did the 1850 Compromise establish about California?
California entered the Union as a free state.
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