EQ 1: How can the sectional tension between the north and south prior to the Civil War be

characterized?
Vocabulary Matching: Causes of the Civil War
 Circle the number of the definition for the words that you already knew.
 Create a list of words to study; highlight
Words to know:
 Historic Events Vocabulary Historic Figures
 Nullification Crisis Confederacy John Brown
 Kansas-Nebraska Act Secede Nat Turner
 Missouri Compromise David Walker
 “Bleeding Kansas” Harriet Beecher Stowe
Read: “Cultures in Conflict” and highlight according to EQ 1
Create: Venn diagram to compare/contrast the northern and southern views, cultural
characteristics, and ideals.
 Under “A”: List characteristics of the north
 Under “B”: List characteristics of the south
 Under “C”: List your inferences about what feelings each side shared regarding the discord
between the north and south.
Perspectives of the North and South: “Cultures in Conflict”
EQ 1: How can the sectional tension between the north and south prior to the Civil War be
characterized?
A. North B. South
1.Believed all workers should be paid;
regardless of race or class
1. 85% worked on farms
2. Preferred Contracts over handshakes
2. undeveloped,7% lived in towns
3. Abolitionists
3. @4million black slaves
4. Rejected Violence/value education
4. almost all southern whites
5. Manufacturing/industry main illiterate; 2 in 10 could read; almost
income/economy all southern blacks were illiterate
6. 33% lived in towns/cities 5. slavery viewed as a mark of status
7.commercially minded: buy/sell/trade and success
8. Viewed secession as treason 6. Few miles of railroad track
9. travel/trade/trasportation infrastructure 7. economy based on plantation
was here; RR, canals agriculture: richest 15% of people
able to own more than 50 slaves.
Shared:
-Issue of slavery could only be settled in blood; honorable cause
-Both sides thought there was nothing in common to communicate
-Dislike for each other’s way of life fueled by ignorance

Summary Statement: According to the information from the article, what are your
(1)observations, inferences, connections, or (2)questions about the causes of the Civil War?
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