b.) Union-the unified nation of the US

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which started the controversy between North and South.

3. Some historians have suggested that the Civil War could have been avoided. If the US had elected better leaders and established stronger political institution they believe, wild-eyed extremists on both sides would never have been able to force the nation into war. Other historians-especially more recent ones-don't accept the idea that American society was similar everywhere.

4. Uncle Tom's Cabin had great affects on the North. The North saw slavery as a sin against man. They tried pushing northern views on the South, which is later believed to have started the war.

5. George Fitzhugh stated that: "You, with the command over labor which your capital gives you, are a slave owner-a master, without the obligations of a master. They who work for you, who create your income, are slaves, without the rights of slaves. Slaves without a master!"

6. The differences between North and South were not simply a p

3.Harpers Ferry is the federal arsenal at Virginia (now West Virginia) where John Brown's Raid occurred.

6. Lincoln hoped that by confining slavery to the stated in which it already existed, it would eventually die out.

3. The Compromise had established 36 30'N latitude as a permanent boundary between frees and slaves states. The northern was unwilling to accept this boundary after the US acquired a large part of Mexico. Southerners were equally firm in insisting that the national government had no business telling its free citizens they couldn't take their property to the territories if they wanted to. And property, after all, was what they considered enslaved people to be.

roduct of exaggerated fiction and propaganda. Hard facts also told the story. They showed that the North was becoming still more urban, still more industrial than the South. Its population, two and a half times as large as the population of the South, was becoming even larger and more diverse, as Irish and German immigrants crowded into swelling cities.

7. The new Republicans drew their support almost entirely from the North and from Protestant middle-class and working class voters. The extremist faction included voters strongly opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act and slavery in the territories. The moderate faction was made up of antislavery voters who wanted to abolish slavery in federal territories but not interfere with the practice where it already existed. Yet another faction was composed of former Whigs still committed to a strong national government that would lead in the development of a national economy.

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