1. Causes of Sectional Economic Differences

2. North (Industrial) South (Agricultural) West (Emerging)
Economy & Contributing Factors
Manufacturing and Shipping
Many free flowing rivers, access to ports, lack of large scale agriculture, willing investors.
Farming
Best farm land and growing season, highly profitable using slave labor, high demand for cotton
Mining, Ranching, Farming
Vast amounts of available land, and abundance of metal ores.
Infrastructure
Connected by a network of roads, railroads, and canals
Effect – more urbanized areas
Fewer roads, canals, or railroads
Effect – more rural
Lack of infrastructure, few roads, canals, or railways
Effect – settlements developed along or near railroads.
Human features
Urban
Biggest cities
Largest wealthiest banks
Best roads, railroads, and canals
largest population
Rural
few major cities
Mostly towns and farmland
Fewer railroads
Poor roads
Smaller population than North
Wide open spaces
Unsettled territories
Transcontinental Railroad
Cities and towns developed along railways
Least populated region
The People
Various European immigrants (Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, etc..) settled in the North because of factory work.
Very Wealthy upper class
Growing Middle Class
Industrial Worker – lower class
Fewer immigrants settled in the South because of a lack of available and jobs.
Upper Class – Plantation owners
Middle Class – Subsistence farmers
Lower Class – Poor white farmers.
Underclass – Free Blacks & Slaves
White settlers
Immigrants seeking land,
Mexican –Americans
Native Americans
Chinese Immigrants working the railroads and other services.

3. Divide the map below into the following sections, North, South, and West. See previous slide as a reference.
Use the characteristic from the chart in the previous slide to create symbols for each section of the United States.
Place those symbols in each of the regions on the map below.