Geography
People
Economy
Transportation
Daily Life
100
Warm humid summers and cold snowy winters.
What is the climate of the North?
100
These people settled in the North.
Who were Irish, Germans, and other Europeans?
100
The economy of the North was based on this.
What is manufacturing?
100
Most of these were in the North.
What are railroads?
100
Most people of the North lived here.
What are cities?
200
Warm and sunny with long summers, mild winters with lots of rain.
What is the climate of the South?
200
These people represented 1/3 of the Southern population.
Who were slaves?
200
The economy of the South was based on this.
What is agriculture?
200
The South was still dependent on these for transportation.
What are steamships?
200
Most people in the South lived here.
What are farms?
300
This type of soil is ideal for growing crops.
What is fertile?
300
These people caused huge population increases in the North between 1800-1860.
Who were immigrants?
300
Many factories in the North began producing textiles (cloth) with this crop from the South.
What is cotton?
300
This canal was a huge success.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
In the South these became self-sufficient and were like small towns.
What are plantations?
400
These were developed near rivers and bays.
What are cities?
400
These few people were wealthy and owned the most slaves.
Who were plantation owners?
400
The cotton gin made this labor force essential to the Souths economy.
What is slavery?
400
These allowed Northern businesses to grow.
What are canals and railroads?
400
This began in cities for the first time.
What is public education?
500
People begin to use this to power factories.
What is waterpower?
500
His invention made cotton the most important crop in the South.
Who is Ely Whitney?
500
Cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and indigo.
What are cash crops?
500
The North laid 30,000 miles of this by 1850.
What are railroad tracks?
500
Only these people in the South received education.
What are children of plantation owners?
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