THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA

THE NORTH

• The Industrial Revolution: rapid growth in the use of machines.
• Rivers provided power for textile mills and factories.
• Eventually steam would replace river power.
• Trade Unions developed to protect workers.

THE SOUTH

• Cotton was KING!
• Slave codes meant it was illegal to teach a slave how to read or write.
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
• Solomon Northrup and the Fugitive Slave Act
• Abolitionists: Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth spoke out against slavery.
• Slaves were property--The Case of Dred Scott

OTHER TRENDS IN AMERICA

• Inventions of cotton gin, plow, and reaper helped agriculture.
• Transportation Revolution: steam-powered trains and steamboats were invented.
• Morse code and the telegraph made communication faster.
• During the Temperance Movement, alcohol was blamed for problems such as crime.
• Women fought for equal rights!