🏭 Industrial North
This natural feature helped power early factories and mills in the North.
What is access to rivers/water power?
This crop drove the Southern economy and global trade.
What is cotton?
This religious movement encouraged people to improve themselves and society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These workers influenced cattle ranching and cowboy culture.
Who are vaqueros?
These two systems made it easier to move goods across the North.
What are canals and railroads?
This group contributed heavily to factory labor and city growth.
Who are immigrants?
This invention made cotton processing faster and increased production.
What is the cotton gin?
This belief inspired many reformers to push for change in society.
What is the belief in human improvement?
These shared water systems helped farmers in dry regions.
What are acequias?
Improved transportation led to this economic result.
What is increased trade/economic growth?
This process led to the growth of cities as people moved for jobs.
What is urbanization?
As cotton production increased, this labor system expanded.
What is slavery / enslaved labor?
This reform aimed to make schooling available to all children.
What is public education reform?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This geographic advantage helped the North build strong transportation networks.
What is rivers/flat land/access to resources?
Northern states gained political strength largely because of this demographic trend.
What is population growth?
This type of economy relied on large farms growing cash crops.
What is a plantation/agricultural economy?
This movement sought to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolition?
After the war, many Mexicanos lost land due to this issue.
What is lack of legal protection / court challenges / unclear land rights?
Transportation improvements helped connect these two parts of the economy.
What are factories and markets (or producers and consumers)?
This type of economy dominated the North and focused on manufacturing goods.
What is an industrial economy?
This factor limited industrial growth in the South compared to the North.
What is dependence on agriculture (or lack of factories/transportation)?
Name one additional reform movement from the 1800s besides abolition or education.
What is prison reform / temperance / women’s rights?
This type of building material worked well in hot, dry climates.
What is adobe?
Without strong transportation systems, the South struggled with this.
What is limited economic diversification or slower industrial growth?