1. What is the “North?” What is the “South?” Understanding Northern and Southern Culture in America

2. What is Culture? Beliefs, language, traditions, customs of a group of people that is learned.

3. When you hear of a “Southerner,” what are some characteristics?

4. When you hear of a “Northerner,” what are some characteristics?

5. Differentiating the North from the South. Location

7. Differentiating the North from the South. Location Occupation

8. North: – Factories/machines – Manufacturing – Assembly lines – Mass Production

9. Occupation South: – Plantations – Cash Crops (Cotton, Tobacco, Rice, Indigo. – Labor intensive work due to hand tools, and/or animal power. – Slavery.

10. Differentiating the North from the South. Location Occupation Ethnicity of people

11. Ethnicity of People North: – White factory owners (capitalist). – Ireland(Irish), Germany, England – 1 st Wave of immigrants. – Italy (Italians), Russia, Greece – 2 nd Wave of immigrants.

12. Ethnicity of People South: – White Plantation Owners. – Italians and Germans(to build railroads). – African slaves.

13. Differentiating the North from the South. Location Occupation Ethnicity of people Lifestyle

15. South: – Religious Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Methodist. – Dialect – Cuisine “Soul Food” – Drink Cold drinks (Iced tea) – Music Country, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues

16. “Union and the Confederacy” “Union” – States that stayed and was loyal to the United States of America. “Confederacy” – States that seceded (left) the Union to create a separate nation.