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Homework: Vocabulary Word Search (EXTRA CREDIT) Be Prepared!!! Grab the notes on the side table Take out yesterday’s cartoons
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Let’s Review: The North What are examples of inventions created in the mid-1800s in the North? In the mid-1800s the North transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods. What is this called? HINT: I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The growing number of factories in the north provided job opportunities. Describe the working conditions. How did skilled workers in the North combat the poor working conditions? There is an influx in immigration in the United States in the mid-1800s. What feelings did Nativists have toward immigrants? The Telegraph Steam-powered Locomotives Clipper Ships Farm Machinery Industrialization Long Hours Low Wages Dangerous By Organizing into Trade Unions and Striking Nativists distrusted immigrants. They were “anti-immigration.”
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Mechanical Reaper
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TODAY… We will explore the SOUTHERN ECONOMY during the mid 1800’s
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Industrial Revolution Plenty Hand Slow Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney Swift Growth
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6,000 bales Over 2 million bales Wore Cotton Cultivate South Carolina AlabamaMississippiTexas Kingdom Slavery
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COTTON KINGDOM – 1860 1 dot = 4,000 bales of cotton/year
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Bales of Cotton
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Cash Crop South Carolina and Georgia Rice Louisiana and Texas Sugar Cane Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky Tobacco Irrigation and Drainage Grind Farms Fewer
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South Livestock HogsOxenHorsesMules Beef Cattle Industry South Farming
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Slavery Manufactured Demand Housing Sanitation 17. The South had F _ _ _ _ _ cities than the north ; but similar to the north, those cities had Fewer
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South North borrowing Furniture, Farm Tools Machines Resented King Confidence
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North Both South Family Life Agriculture Industry Labor Economy Directions: In the table below, use your text book, notes, and the provided readings to compare and contrast the life of Northerners and Southerners in the 1840s and 1850s.
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