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Contrasting Economies: Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture

Sectional Division and the Causes of the Civil War

5th Grade·Social Studies·US-UT-SS

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Compare the North's manufacturing and free-labor economy with the South's plantation system dependent on the unpaid forced labor of enslaved people.

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Sectional Division and the Causes of the Civil War

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

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Compare the economic, political, and cultural divergences between the North and South to explain the outbreak of the American Civil War.

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5.4.4Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Use primary and secondary sources to compare how differences in economics, politics, and culture (for example, slavery, political and economic competition in Western territories) between the North and South led to the United States Civil War.