NORTH VS SOUTH

NORTH ECONOMY

• Lowell went to England and saw a machine and remade it
• Eli showed manufacturers an easy way to make stuff
• The industrial rev. Changed everything.
• Southerners are afraid of the northes power

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NORTH TRANSPORTATION

• Congress funded a project to put a road across the Appalachian mountain
• Builders made steam engine boats
• Going up stream was hard
• Made steam locomotives
• First all water link from central plains to east coast

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NORTH SOCIETY

• Mostly into technology
• Not as much racism
• The climate was really cold or really hot

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SOUTH ECONOMY

• The economy was based on agriculture
• They grew cash crops such as tobacco, rice, sugarcane, and indigo
• Cotton was a promising crop
• Eli Whitney crested the "cotton engine" called the cotton gin

SOUTH TRANSPORTATION

• Cotton was transported by steam-powered riverboats
• The South opposed bills for federal funds to build roads or canals because they had little need
• River travel was the Souths main form of transportation
• They also had some railroads which they were proud of

SOUTH SOCIETY

• Wealthy plantation owners dominated the economy and politics of the South
• Most white families owned some land but only one in four owned one slave
• They rented rugged mountain or forest land and paid rent with the crops they raised
• A small minority of African Americans in the South were free blacks