1. Ch. 14 North and South

2. Industry in the North pg 408
New Inventions – Made work easier in factories and on farms
1846 Elias Howe- Sewing Machine
1825 Jethro Wood- Iron Plow with replaceable Parts
1847 McCormick- Mechanical Reaper
Mechanical drill
Clipper Ships

3. Tall masts and huge sails Much faster -NY to China in 81 days!
1850s come iron steamships even faster

4. The Telegraph 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse
Sent electrical signals along a wire
Code based on dots, dashes, spaces

5. First Railroads
1829 – English family developed steam-powered locomotive engine to pull rail cars
Unpopular in U.S, unsafe
Often only 1 track set for each direction
Improvements
Iron rails
Stronger bridges, solid roadbeds

6. Expanding Economy pg 411 1830s steam power
Powerful and cheap
No longer have to build factories along rivers
New machines = more goods at lower cost
Railroads linking NE to W

7. Life in the north pg 413 Factory Conditions Worsen, How?
Trade Unions and Strikes pg. 414
Wanted – Shorter workday, higher $, better conditions
hr work day for gov. employees
Mass- gets right to strike
Women Workers Organize

8. Immigration pg 415-16 1840s-1850s 4 mil immigrants arrived
Ireland, GB, & Germany
Supplied much of the labor that helped our economy grow
Nativists: Wanted to preserve the country for native- born, white citizens
Formed Know-Nothing party

9. African Americans in the North pg 417
Early 1800s slavery outlawed
Still discriminated against
Successes :
William Whipper- rich of lumberyard
Macon Allen- first licensed to practice law in US
John Russwurm became editor of Freedom’s Journal

10. Cotton Kingdom in the South
Cotton Gin- transforms S economy
1792 – 6000 bales of cotton a yr
1850 – over 2 mil
‘Cotton Kingdom’ – SC through AL & MI to TX
As S spread so did Slavery

11. Agricultural Economy Cotton = most $
Rice, sugarcane, tobacco, livestock
Factories only exist to meet needs of farming society
Rich planters preferred to invest in land and slaves rather than factories
Economically dependent on N and Europe

16. African American Southerners
Life in South
White Southerners
African American Southerners

17. Life Without Freedom pg 424
Slave Codes: keep slaves from either running away or rebelling -- Examples?
Worked from ‘can see to can’t see’
Family Life: S. laws did not recognize slave marriages, children often taken, large plantations could have ‘extended family’
Religion- helped cope with harshness of life

18. Resistance Against Slavery pg 426
Broke tools, destroyed crops, stole food
Tried to escape N
Nat Turner’s Revolt pg 426
Killed more than 57 whites