Economic and Social Issues that
lead sectionalism and
nationalism
NCSCOS 2.03
The Big Ideas
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Macro Concepts
Change-the transformation of a group of
people, pace or government.
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Micro Concepts
Industrialization-the system of creating
things using machines.
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Innovation-the process of improving and
updating technology.
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Nationalism-a belief that a country’s people
are superior to others.
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System-an organized way of doing something.
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Sectionalism-a belief that certain sections of
a country [North and South] have unique
ideas.
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Interchangeable Parts-machine parts that
can be used in multiple ways.
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Internal Improvements-better ways to do
things based on people inside of a company.
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Factory System-process using large numbers
of workers to make goods.
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Plantation System-process set up to have
large farms with large numbers of slaves.
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Slavery-forced labor.
The Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution may be best described as the
change in the way businesses manufactured products.
Instead of making things one item at a time by skilled
craftsman factories and machinery made products.
Northern states became industrial.
Southern states remained agricultural.
Industrialization: Some Examples
 Eli Whitney-Invented and patented
a machine that separated cotton
seeds from cotton plants. Made it
easier and faster to turn cotton into
textiles. Removed the need for
human labor [slaves] to separate
cotton seeds but increased the
demand for slavery to pick more
cotton.
 John Deere-Invented a steel plow
and other devices to mechanize
farming further decreasing reliance
on human labor [slaves]
 Cyrus McCormick-Invented a
mechanical reaper to harvest
crops without the need of
human labor [slaves].
 All of these inventions
completely changed the
Cotton Kingdom of the South
 The slave system was forever
changed because machines
did the jobs once performed by
human beings.
The Northern Advantages
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Samuel Morse invented a
signaling code [language]
that became uniform [fit for
everyone].
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The code was used for the
telegraph which was a
machine used to transmit
messages through the
airwaves.
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Businesses in the North
used this to communicate
[used later on in the Civil
War].
The Northern Advantages
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Robert Fulton-invented and successfully sold a steam powered boat.
Trade and travel was transformed from wind power [depending on
weather] to coal power [controlled by people].
People could be transported more easily and faster [this was
beneficial to the economy].
The Erie Canal was a manmade water way created to transport goods
between Canada and the U.S. [steamboats were the primary method of
travel]. U.S. commerce was tremendously improved because land
obstacles no longer slowed the transportation of goods.
Image Sources
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http://www.ihs.issaquah.wednet.edu/teachers/fine/images/krup_industrial_revolution.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrus_McCormick_engr
aving.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McCormick_Reaper,_18
45.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eli_Whitney_engraving_
from_1846_memoir.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cotton_gin_EWM_2007.
jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johndeere9600.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McCormick_Twine_Bind
er_1884.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L-Telegraph1.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Fulton__Circle_of_Thomas_Sully.jpg