1. Agriculture & Industry

2. What’s the Difference between Agriculture & Industry?
First Things First...
Answer the following question on the top of a blank sheet of paper...
What’s the Difference between Agriculture & Industry?

3. Setting the Scene...
After the Civil War = HUGE expansion in Industry and Agriculture
Settlers spread across the entire Continent
By the “frontier” was closed
What does that mean?
New Technology & New Innovations helped economy

5. Agriculture - South
The south could no longer depend on a one-crop economy
Agriculture was diversified - especially in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
Development of refrigerated rail cars made the shipment of fresh foods possible = increase in demand
Examples of crops:
Tobacco, wheat, corn, cotton, fruit
Overall, the South could no longer depend on a one-crop economy. Agriculture diversified – particularly in GA, FL, SC, LA where fruit and vegetables had long growing seasons. Development of refrigerated rail cars would make shipment of fresh foods possible so demand grew.

6. Agriculture - South Sharecropping What is that?
Dominated agriculture - poor families were tied to the land & could barely provide for their families
Sharecropping dominated agriculture with poor whites and poor blacks tied to small pieces of land barely able to provide for their families.

7. Agriculture - Ranching
Cattle Ranching - Texas
They had plenty of cattle but a low demand
With Railroads - transport their supply to the North, where there was a higher demand
“Cattle Kingdom” eventually crashed - more ranchers and herds decreased prices, overgrazed land, loss of free grazing land b/c of fences

9. Agriculture - West
Farmers began to settle in the Great Plains ’s
Railroads made the journey easier and less expensive
New laws = free land
Rainfall in 1870’s convinced people that they could make it as farmers

10. Industry - South
Industry = slow in South - Civil War had devastated their economy
Textile factories - closer to cotton crops
Coal Mines - West Virginia, TN, KY
Birmingham, Alabama - steel mills & iron production
Had resources necessary
Railroads need steel
Steel = cheaper than iron - new technology

11. Industry - North North traditionally industrial
South traditionally agricultural
Post Civil War - the North still more Industrial
Many factories in the North - putting together the resources shipped in from the South & West into consumer goods
Consumer goods?

12. Industry - Out West Gold, Silver, & Boomtowns
Gold Rush of people fled West to find gold
Towns sprung up around these areas = Boomtowns
When gold & silver disappeared - people began mining for other metals
Copper, lead, zinc

13. Steel - What is that? Steel = iron ore + carbon
Iron was super expensive during the Civil War
The Railroad needed iron to build the rails
Introduction of steel - cheaper than Iron

14. Transportation of Iron from Canada → U.S. = Steel Industry

15. Agriculture & Industry Map Activity
Color the Great Plain states brown
Label states that grew cotton with a picture of a green t-shirt (across the south - Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North & South Carolina)
Label states that grew corn with a picture of an ear of corn (Illinois & Nebraska)
Color Texas purple & draw cattle trail from Texas to Missouri
Label Birmingham, Alabama, as a part of the steel industry by drawing a red dot
Industrial areas in the North color blue
Draw the Transcontinental Railroad
Label states with Coal Mines with a black dot (WV, TN, KY)