The Differences between the North and South

Geography of the North or South

100

Is it North or South?  Thin Rocky Soil

North

200

Is it North or South? Long Growing seasons from March to October

South

300

Is it North or South?  Deep Bays and Harbors on the coast

North

400

Is it North or South?  Marshy swampy land around the coast

South 

500

Region that had the greater economic advantage prior to the Civil war and why?

South 

Warm climate, fertile soil, flat land etc

Differences between the North and South

100

This name of the system in which crops were grown for mass export and the name of the major export of the South

Cash Crops and Cotton

200

Term to describe people's movement into cities and where this was occurring more in the United States pre-civil war

Urbanization/North

300

Name what the North and South relied MOST on for transportation. 

South - rivers 

North - railroads/canals

400

Resources that were more prevalent in the North than South for industrialization

Population, natural resources, railroads 

500

"I regard my people as I regard my machinery. So long as they can do my work for what I choose to pay them, I’ll keep them, getting out of them all I can.”  Would this be a quote from someone in the North or South?  Explain!

North 

Wage earners/factories

The Industrial Revolution

100

The product whose production was revolutionized by machines in the Northern United States 

Textiles

200

Name of the factory town where women were largely used as the labor force

Lowell Mass

300

The Father of the American Industrial Revolution who set up the first mills in the United States. 

Who is Samuel Slater?

400

What were two MAJOR effects of Industrialization on the United States 

women labor, child labor, education, environmental damage, tenements, urbanization

500

Name three of the ingredients needed to Industrialize 

1.  Population 

2. Natural Resources 

3.  Capital (wealth) 

4.  Political Stability 

5.  Technological Innovation

Innovations and Inventors

100

Innovation that mechanized the picking of seeds out of cotton and the name of its creator 

Eli Whitney Cotton Gin 

200

Innovation that used dashes and dots to communicate over wires and its inventor

Samuel B. Morse - Morse Code

300

Two machines that revolutionized crop production allowing more land to be farmed in the same amount of time. 

Mechanical Reaper and the Steel Tipped Plow

400

Name two inventions or innovations that revolutionized travel in the Antebellum period

Steam boat, Steam Engine, Erie Canal 

500

Decide the invention you believe had the greatest impact on Antebellum society and explain why?

Answers will vary

Slavery in the South and Immigration in the North

100

Name of the event in which two million slaves were moved from States like Virginia to the Deep South 

The Second Middle Passage

200

Name of the farms which produced one to two cash groups and were reliant upon slave labor to operate.

Plantations

300

What is a push factor and provide and example

Reasons why people leave a country 

examples will vary 

400

Describe what a pull factors in and provide and example

The reason why someone decides to move to a specific place 

Answers will vary

500

Name the two groups that immigrated into the United States prior to the Civil War and explain why

Irish - Irish potato famine 

Germany - revolutions