Civil War & Reconstruction

Putting regional interests ahead of national unity

Supporting equal power for all three regions

Eliminating differences through federal compromise

Expanding trade to link all regions together

The West emphasized ranching and local militias

The North emphasized industry and central power

The South emphasized small farms and local power

The Territories emphasized fur trade and neutrality

Foreign treaties should guide domestic issues

Courts should decide without public input

States should decide key issues within their borders

Only Congress should decide for all regions

Presidents appoint governors to set all policies

Congress divides land equally among new settlers

Courts determine policies after legal challenges

Settlers vote locally on major issues like slavery

Equal reliance on small family agriculture

Shared investment in mining operations

Industrial growth versus plantation expansion

Mutual agreement to end slave labor

They sought to end slavery everywhere

They supported keeping slavery for stability

They believed slavery should stay in Texas

They wanted to expand cotton plantations

It protected federal authority over states

It was vital to the cotton-based economy

It reduced conflicts with Northern cities

It matched industrial factory practices

Replace farms with urban factories

Create new federal territories quickly

Increase taxes on cotton exports

Assert state power over federal power

Texans, preferring industrial manufacturing

Northerners, supporting more plantation growth

Abolitionists, worried about cotton profits

Southerners, fearing loss of states’ power

Republican Party in the North, limit slavery spread

Democratic Party in the North, expand slavery nationwide

Constitutional Union in the North, ignore slavery entirely

Northern Democrats in the North, abolish states’ rights