Manufacturing economy/free labor
period 5, 1844-1877
key concept 5.2: intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war.
i. ideological and economic differences over slavery produced an array of diverging responses from americans in the north and the south.
a) the north's expanding manufacturing economy relied on free labor in contrast to the southern economy's dependence on slave labor. some northerners did not object to slavery on principle but claimed that slavery would undermine the free labor market. as a result, a free-soil movement arose that portrayed the expansion of slavery as incompatible with free labor.