Geography-North
How many seasons did the north have?
Four distinct seasons.
Where did the south expand from?
From Maryland to Florida and from the Atlantic Coast to Louisiana and Texas.
The start of what revolution changed the North?
The Industrial Revolution
The south economy was based on what?
Agriculture
What is deforestation?
The clearing of forest
Bays and inlets that were used caused what to flourish?
Fishing
Commerce
Shipbuilding
What was the climate like in the South?
Plentiful rainfall, humid summers and mild winters
What was the shift of the revolution in the North?
Making stuff by hand to making it by machine
The people who favored farming were called what?
Agrarians
What is the definition of agrarian?
A person who favors farming
People used the trees for what in New England?
For shipbuilding and trade with other countries
From Chesapeake Bay to Gulf of Mexico
Francis Cabot Lowell built what to help get the Industrial Revolution going?
The textile mill.
Why did the use of slaves start to decline in the south?
People were unwilling to pay high prices for crops
Hard to clean the cotton seeds out
What is a plantation?
A field where people work to grow and pick crops
What rivers deposited rich soil?
The Hudson River and the Delaware River
Because of good soil, the South could grow what?
Rice
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Corn
The Industrial Revolution made it hard for who to compete?
Craftspeople
The invention of what made cotton the most promising crop in the south?
The cotton engine or the cotton gin for short
What is the definition of manually?
Doing something by hand
The industrious Northerners caused what?
They caused mining and deforestation
People built their homes next to what?
By rivers and water highways
What inventions help agriculture in the North?
The steel-tipped plow
Reaper
After Whitney's invention, what spread west that the thought would not expand?
Slavery
What is the definition of the Industrial Revolution?
The shift from hand to machine