Industrial Revolution
Pages 52-61
Page 52
divide the page in half
• Draw and color a scene
depicting Industrial/
Urban life
• Draw and color a scene
depicting Agriculture/
Rural life
• Industrial – having to do
with business and/or
manufacturing
• Urban – Cities mainly in the
North
• Agriculture – having to do with
farming and/or ranching
• Rural – Country life mainly in
the South
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Industrial Revolution
cover page.
Skim through Chapter
19 in the History Alive
textbook
List five machines
mentioned in the
Chapter that made life
easier for most
Americans
Industrial Revolution
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5.
Geography
Page 54
North
South
Divide the page into four
boxes.
Draw a scene in one of the
squares depicting the :
Economy
•Geography of the North
•Geography of the South
•Economy of the North
•Economy of the South
North
South
Geography
Page 55
Geography
and Economy
of the South
and North
North
South
Four Distinct Seasons
Shorter Growing Season
Harbor and Seaports
Farming not exactly
great except by rivers
5. Trade is good
6. Lots of timber
1. Good rain, short
winters, and long hot
summers
2. Long growing season
3. Wide rivers allowed for
excellent imports and
exports.
4. Rice, sugar cane, indigo,
tobacco, lumber and
fish
1.
2.
3.
4.
Economy
North
South
1. Many inventions
2. Lowell textile factories and
other factories
3. Most stuff made in
factories
4. Agriculture improved by
machines
1. Agricultural – mostly small
farms – few plantations
2. Cotton was KING
3. All money went to land
and slaves
4. Did not want factories
Transportation
Page 56
North
South
Divide the page into four boxes.
Draw a scene in one of the squares
depicting the :
•Transportation of the North
•Transportation of the South
•Society of the North
•Society of the South
Society
North
South
Transportation
North
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Transportation
and Society of
the North and
South
South
1. Improved roads;
riverboats and
steamboats
2. Used rivers and canals
like the Erie Canal
3. Ships and harbors
4. Railroads were steam
powered
1. Mostly river travel
2. Cities built on rivers; no
need for roads or canals
3. Some railroads but not
much.
Society
North
1. With hard work regular
people could get wealth
and power
2. People started moving to
cities and towns
3. Many free AfricanAmericans but not equal
4. Many new immigrants
South
1. Wealth was land and
number of slaves.
2. Top-plantation owners/
bottom was slaves
3. Most owned land and
worked it themselves
4. Some free blacks
5. Rural life
Page 60
Industry
and
Invention
• Factories
– Built near water for power
– Mostly in New England
– Built in reaction to the
Embargo Act
• Why New England?
– Lots of fast moving rivers
– Shipping and easy access to
ocean
– Willing labor force
•
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Plantations
and
Slavery
Cotton Gin changed production of cotton from one person
cleaning one pound per day to one person cleaning 50 pounds
per day.
– This caused:
• People to move West for More land
• Cotton exports to increase
• People starting growing only cotton
– Cotton is King!!
• Native Americans lose their lands
• Many more slaves are needed to clean all the cotton
Increased Cotton
production
Increased number
of slaves
•
•
•
Increased
revenue $$$
Most people in the South were poor farmers not plantation
owners
Slaves were 1/3 of the Southern Population
Most slaves tried to live a good life in spite of slavery by:
– Staying focused on family and religion
– Singing folk songs (spirituals)
• Pass time
• Send messages
• escape