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HoW DiD tHe NAtioN
iNCreAsiNgLy FrACture
DuriNg tHe seCtioNAL
Crisis?

Between 1790 and 1860, the ever-
expanding United States saw
dramatic changes in its population.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 DebAtiNg sLAvery When abolitionists petitioned the House of Representatives to
evaded dealing with the explosive eliminate slavery, pro-slavery congressmen responded with a series of gag rules, such as the
issue of slavery by allowing future Pinckney Resolutions of 1836, to prevent anti-slavery petitions from being read.
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southern states to permit slavery SLAvES AS ToTAL PoPULATIoN PErCENTAgE
and banning its expansion in future IN SLAvEHoLdINg STATES
northern states. As states were
admitted across the South, slavery State Percent
expanded westward. Enslaved Alabama 45%
African Americans came to make Arkansas 26%
up significant portions of the total Delaware 2%
populations of states from the Florida 44%
Atlantic coast to Texas. In the North, Georgia 44%
however, slavery had been gradually
banned and industrialization boomed Kentucky 20%
across the region. As the 1860 Louisiana 47%
presidential election neared, the Maryland 13% SOURCe: The Civil War Home Page http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html Created 1997.
United States found itself ever more Mississippi 55%
divided between North and South, a Missouri 10%
division centered on slavery. North Carolina 33%
South Carolina 57%
Tennessee 25%
Texas 30%
virginia 31%

K e y Q u e S t i O n S Use MyHistoryLab Explorer to answer these questions:

Comparison How did the Consequence What Analysis In what areas
demographics of the North differ impact did slavery have on did more people live in towns
from those of the South? immigration to the South? and cities during this time?

explore the populations of the Map the percentage of Theorize what effects differences
two regions based on census foreign-born immigrants in the in levels of urban population had
results. United States. on area economies.

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