Transcript US History / Chapter 5 Growth and Division 1816 – 1832

What Was Life Like
Looking at this data, what kind of conclusion
Could you make about life in the Mid 1800’s?
Life in the North
 Very Urban – over half people lived in cities!
 Industrialized = Manufacturing, Factory Jobs!
 Roads, Canals, Rail Lines, Rivers.
Life in the North
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“The North
Before the War”
 Farming is still very important….
 City Life = Jobs, but problems with Crime, Sanitation
(human waste and animal waste), Pollution, Disease.
 But Education was available (mostly boys) and most
African Americans were free.
Most Northern Factory / City
Dwellers had a shorter life
expectancy than a slave in the
South….
Life in the South
 Farming is main occupation.
 Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin will cause Cotton Boom
 Society split between: Elite Planters, yeoman farmers,
Dirty poor whites, and Enslaved Africans.
Life in the South
 Little industry, few roads, and
even fewer rail lines.
 VERY Rural! 98
 Atlanta is largest city.
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“The South
Before the War”
Planters
 Controlled local
gov’t, the economy,
& social life of the
community….
 Owned 20 or more
slaves
Yeoman
Farmers
- Own 4 or less slaves,
- Modest living, majority
Of population, work
Land themselves.
Poor White Farmers
- Hunt & live off land
African – Americans
93 % Population is Enslaved / 7 % that’s free lives
northward.
 By 1850, 3.6 million African American = 37% of
Population
Causes:
- Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whiney
- Available slave labor
The Cotton Boom from 1790’s to 1860’s
Effects:
- Creation of the ‘cotton belt’
– State economies based on cotton production.
- Huge rise in cotton production.
- Westward spread of farming in the South.
- Expansion of the slavery system (will new territories
allow it?? )
- Slower urban grown in the South than in the North
(Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans).
- Northern state pass Emancipation Laws (set the
slaves free)
- Supporters of Slavery said it was a “necessary evil”
→ Although morally wrong, it was economically necessary!
North + East = Industrial
South = Cotton
West = Nations “Bread Basket”
Different Regions Linked by
Railroads, Canals, and Roads…
Despite differences, each region
needed the others…..
The End