Antebellum Period
Published on Nov 20, 2015
This presentation will show you the differences between the North and the South during the Antebellum Period.
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Antebellum Period
Morgan Lawson
This is the Antebellum Period and everything about the North and the South. Though they were part of the same country, they often disagreed and were nothing alike.
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Society/Culture in the south
- 1/3 of population were slaves
- Education & Religion were unorganized
- Fox hunting, dancing, horseracing, & watching cockfights
- Europeans & Enslaved Africans
Most of the south was made up of Europeans and enslaved Africans. "One third of who were slaves" (Cox Page 1), this quote is talking about the population in the south and how one third of them were slaves. The activities that people in the south usually participated in were fox hunting, dancing, horseracing, and watching cockfights. The South also had very unorganized religion and education.
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Society/Culture in the north
- 5 million to 31 million in population
- Art
- Culture
- Education
"In the North the overall population rose from about five million to thirty-one million during this time" (Cox page 2), this quote is talking about the dramatic increase of people in the North during the Antebellum period. Art, culture, and education were all important things that mattered to the North.
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Transportation in the south
- Steamships
- Railroads
- Miles & Miles of Railroads
In the South, steamships and railroads helped to make it easier for goods to be sold in markets. "By 1860 about ten thousand miles of railroads spread across the southern states." (Cox page 2). This quote shows that railroad systems were the main form of transportation in the South during the Antebellum Period. They used railroads to transport goods and to get from place to place.
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transportation in the north
- Canals
- Railroads
- Transportation brought changes
The growing of transportation in the North brought many changes to cities there. "...were a cheap source of transportation" (Cox page 3). This quote is talking about how canals and how lots of people in the North used these for transportation because they were cheap and easy to transport goods on. People in the North also used railroads as a form of transportation, but not as much as people in the South did.
region/geography in the south
- Rural
- Plantations
- Warm & Sunny
- Humid Summers & Mild Winters
- Heavy Rainfall
In the South there were lots of rural areas rather than cities like there were in the North. People in the South wanted to allow slavery because they needed people to work on the plantations. " Warm and sunny with long, hot, humid, summers, and mild winters, and heavy rainfall" (Cox page 1). This described the climate in the South.
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Region/geography in the north
- Immigration
- Lots of Population
- Warm Summers
- Snowy Cold Winters
In the North, there were rural areas rather than cities and the beginning, but as time passed more immigrants came and the population increased. In the North, they had warm summers and snowy cold winters.
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economy in the south
- Agriculture
- No Manufacturing Goods
- Industrial Revolution didn't help
- Cotton
The biggest contributor to the economy in the South was agriculture. The Industrial Revolution did not have a good impact on the South and this was because they would make cotton, but they didn't have the manufacturing goods they needed to turn the cotton into clothes so they had to send cotton to the North and they would manufacture it and then the South would have to buy it back from them.
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Economy in the north
- Industrial Revolution
- Weapons and Other Goods
- Shipping, Textiles, Lumber
- Fur & Mining
The Industrial Revolution gave the North an advantage because they got to use the new products that were made there. By using the new products made in the Industrial Revolution, the North could make weapons and other goods for war. Two thirds of the Americans lived in the North. "The industries included shipping, textiles, lumber, furs, and mining." (Cox page 3). This quote is listing all of the industries that came to the North during the Industrial Revolution that they got to use to get new products.
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Works Cited
Vaughan, Donald. The Everything Civil War Book: Everything You Need to Know about the War That Divided the Nation. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media, 2000. Print.
Cox , Courtnee. Information About the North & South
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