protective tariff	expansion of slavery	internal improvements	cheap public land
NE	FOR	AGAINST	AGAINST	AGAINST
NW	FOR	AGAINST	FOR	FOR
SE	AGAINST	FOR	AGAINST	AGAINST
SW	AGAINST	FOR	FOR	FOR

 
 

NORTHEAST: FAVORS a protective tariff which helps protect them as manufacturers.
    OPPOSES slavery expansion because this abolitionist region favors free labor.
    OPPOSES internal improvements at national government's expense because as an older region it has a good transportation network already. Also, New York built canal at own expense.
    OPPOSES cheap public land fearing it will drain off labor supply to the West.

NORTHWEST: FAVORS tariff because higher prices for woolen goods means higher prices for the wool from their sheep.
    OPPOSES slavery expansion and is major abolitionist area.
    FAVORS internal improvements at national government's expense because this frontier region needs but cannot afford to pay for them.
    FAVORS cheap public land because these frontier farmers want to pay as little as possible for their farms.

SOUTHEAST: OPPOSES tariff because it means they must pay higher prices forr the manufactured goods and only Northeast seems to benefit.
    FAVORS slavery expansion because it is a slavery area and has a surplus of slaves which they sell to the newer areas of the South.
    OPPOSES internal improvements at the national government's expense because this older region has long been settled and has own roads and a good network of rivers.
    OPPOSES cheap public land because the fertility of their soil is depleted and they fear competition with the lands of newer South.

SOUTHWEST: OPPOSES tariff because they must pay higher prices on Northeast manufacturers.
    FAVORS slavery expansion because this new plantation region imports slaves as its labor supply.
    FAVORS internal improvements at national government's expense because this frontier region needs roads and they are unable to pay for them.
    FAVORS cheap pulic land because these fronteir farmers want to pay as little as possible for their plantation lands.

internal improvements = roads, dams, highways, canals, bridges, transportation systems, etc.
 
 

POPULATION OF THE U.S. 1800-1860

1800 5,300,000
1810 7,200,000
1820 9,600,000
1830 12,800,000
1840 17,000,000
1850 23,200,000
1860 31,400,000
 

URBAN POPULATION OF THE U.S., 1800-1850

1800 1810 1820 1850

New York 60,000 96,000 123,706 515,547

Philadelphia 65,000 96,000 111,000 340,045

Baltimore 26,000 46,000 63,000 169,054

Boston 24,000 32,000 43,000 136,000

New Orleans 27,176 116,375

Charleston 18,000 24,700 24,780 42,985
 

COTTON PRODUCTION

1800 100,000 bales

1810 171,000 bales

1830 731,000 bales

1850 2,133,000 bales

1859 5,387,000 bales