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Worlds of the North & SouthApril 4-5, 2011
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Objective: Students will identify and describe key elements of Northern geography, economy, transportation, and society through visual discovery and creating category notes.
Drill: What is a community? Are you part of one?
Materials: Interactive Notebook, pencil
Homework: 1) Using details from class notes, write a paragraph describing the North 2) Check TeacherEase!
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Geography• All Northern states experience four distinct seasons. • Jagged New England coast with rocky soil – good for shipbuilding, fishing & commerce
•Thick forests - New Englanders could make money by harvesting timber.
• Wide plains with rich soil in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey – useful for farming
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Economy
• Economy based on manufacturing
• Steam-powered machinery • New inventions made goods cheaper
• Unskilled laborers worked in factories
• Changes in northern agriculture - new reaper cut grain more efficiently than a scythe
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Transportation• Congress funded the construction of a National Road to connect the East to the West
• Steamboats helped move people & goods up and down major rivers
• Erie Canal: first all-water link between farms on the Central Plains & East Coast cities
• By the 1840s, railroads had become the North’s biggest business
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• More & more northerners were leaving farms and moving to towns and cities
Society
•African Americans in the North were free, but they were not treated as equals
•Between 1845 & 1860, four million immigrants, mostly from Ireland and Germany, came to the North.
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TRUE (thumbs up) or FALSE? (thumbs down)
Free blacks in the North had the same exact rights as white men.
The National Road was a national failure.
Industry in the North was based on manufacturing.
Only a few northern states experience all 4 seasons.
By the 1840s, railroads were the North’s biggest business.
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Objective: Students will identify and describe key elements of Southern geography, economy, transportation, and society through visual discovery and creating category notes.
Drill: Write down one word to describe the North.
Materials: Interactive Notebook, pencil
Homework: 1) Write a descriptive paragraph about the South 2) Vocab Chart due tomorrow
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Geography
• Mild winters & long, hot summers.
• Plentiful rainfall & long growing season
• Coast has many swamps & marshes - damp lowlands ideal for growing rice & sugarcane
• Important feature – broad, flat rivers.
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Economy
• Economy based on agriculture
• Plantation owners used slaves to grow cash crops like tobacco, rice, sugarcane & indigo
• “Cotton is King” – by 1860, sales of cotton overseas earned more than all US exports combined
• Eli Whitney hoped his invention would lighten the work of slaves but it made slavery more important than ever
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Transportation
• People & goods moved on rivers
• Most important southern product shipped by water was cotton
• Mississippi River is the mightiest of all southern waterways
• South had ½ the amount of railroads as the North
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Society
• Wealth measured in terms of land & slaves
• Rigid social structure: 1) rich plantation owners, 2) white farmers & workers, 3) African Americans• Plantation owners dominated economy & politics
• Majority of white families owned their own land; only one in four owned even one slave
• Most African Americans in the South were slaves, a small minority were free blacks