North+and+South+Criterion

=**The North** = __** 1. Elaborate the reasoning on how changes in working life affect people/families .**__ The production of mills started off slow because many Americans saw other jobs available. Samuel Slater tried to get the production going and opened up facotry jobs for families. On most farms, childern would help the parents work so it was basically the same thing for childern to work in factories. Childern did get paid, but adults got paid much much more. To get more people to work for Slater's mills, he built housing for the workers. his strategy of hiring families became known as the Rhode Island system, which divided the work into simple tasks for the family. However, Francis Cabot Lowell took a different approach to getting the manufacturing industry in gear. He created the Lowell system which was based on a water frame textile industry that emploed young, unmarried woman that came from local farms. Many women came from New England hoping to earn money instead of working on the family farm. This affect the way people would look at women and how they are just as good as men. This also affected families because they could have been split up depending on who wanted to go where into the industry business. More immigrants came because they were from poor countries and would take any of the money that they could get. they were willing to work for low pay and the wages of factory workes had gone done as more and more people wanted jobs. Craftspeople felt threaten so that is why some came to work for the factories even if it meant getting paid 1 dollar for 13 hours of work. This affected the family befcause if so many people were working, it might be hard to find a job and get the money you need to support your family. You can connect this to the world today because in our economy, it is hard to get a job and get a good amount of money for what you do. Some people formed trade unions to try and imporve pay and working conditions. But, if some people did not get what they want, they would go on strike and refuse to work. Women began working for "men" factories so that affected people in many ways.The men might have gotten mad that the women got paid just as much as they did and worked for the same time. Without these changes in working life, we might not have the economy we have today.


 * __2. Outline the facts of how transportation and technology affected the North explain if it affected the government.__ **


 * The Transportation Revolution- a period of rapid growth in the speed and convience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
 * 2 new forms of transportation: the steam boat and the steam-powered trains. These helped with foreign countries and the imports and exports.
 * Reduced shipping time and costs
 * Steamboats were very useful considering they traveled up a current with no problem. This helped trade and profit because goods could be moved easily to and from foriegn countries and it was cheaper. After goods were being carreid across the ocean, so were people! This could affect the government because they ight of had to make new laws pertaining to the steamboat and how it would travel for our trade.
 * The effect of Gibbons vs Ogden case, was that we got more waterways for trading and shipping.
 * The locomotive was invented which was just like the steamboat but only moved goods on land. They provedd this was right for the job when the locomotive(Tom Thumb) beat the horse drawn carriage in a lengthy race. Even though it broke down in the end, it still proved that it was a more effiecent way to transport goods across the country. It help the economy and the government may had to make more laws on how the locomotive was to be used and when the approopiate time to use it was.
 * having the railroads and steamboats connected the states together because they got to enjoy something that they might not be able to grow in their own state.
 * because of all the transportation happening, wood got to much to handle for the fuel for pretty much everything. Coal was then used for the fuel for steamboats and locomotives. Steel was also used for things like the tracks of the railroads.
 * since we changed our fuel from wood to coal, people got to use wood for more things like building homes and furniture.
 * Telegraph-a device that could send information over wires across great distances
 * Sammuel F.B. Morse studied electricity and magentism to help make this great invention.
 * Morse Code- differnt combonations of dots and dashes that represented each letter of the alphabet. this was used to communicate with one another from the telegraph.
 * The telegraph affected the government because they used these to help communicate between teh different branches
 * the telegraph wires were connected along the railroad tracks
 * they changed from having water power to steam which was an advantage because they could build places almost anywhere now since they didn't have to be near a stream or river.
 * John Deere invented the steel balde plow for farming
 * Cyrus McCormick developed teh mechanic reaper which cut down wheat
 * huge crop fields were now a success
 * the sewing machine was invented and them improved
 * iceboxes,matches, saftey pin were invented.
 * more things lowered i price

__3. Gather information on the Industrial Revolution and explain how it impacts history.__
-//Beginning of the 1700s// Many people in the United States and Europe were farmers. The women would make things that they needed by hand. For example, they would use the cotton of wool from the farm and spin it into thread. They then would sew the thread by hand into the clothing that they needed. -//Mid 1700s// Great Britian wanted more manufactured goods because they noticed how the improvement of the roads and agriculture changed the population. The **Industrial Revolution** was a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s. -//Textile Industry// Textile is a cloth item that was a big start to the Industrial Revolution. Before this big change, spinning cotton into thread took much more time than making the item itslef. Richard Arkwright invented a spinning macchine called the water frame. This was much faster and it lowered the cost of cotton cloth and increased the speed of textile production. Merchants began to build big mills. //-Samuel Slater// Great Britian produce the most and the best cloth out of all hte countries. It was okay for any skilled mechanic to leave the country. Samuel Slater took his skills to the U.S. where he began making mills that supported the textile industry. This was really big in the North, because the South found it was easier to get their money by agriculture. //-Eli Whitney// The U.S. government worred about going to war with France and the workers made guns by hand which would just takke too long. eli Whitney was skilled at making guns and more technolgoy was involved along with interchangle parts. He had factories for the guns he was making and it sped up the mass production. -Slow Growth Manufacturing slowly grew in the United States because people thought they could get more money by working on the farm that they own rather than working in a factory. After the War of 1812, the U.S. was too dependent on trade and thier imports. This alos affected the way the manufacturing companies grew.

How it impacted history The Industrial Revolution is related to our modern manufacturing today. Machines started to help make things like clothes back them, and we know have the sewing machine that canhelp us make the clothes. Interchangable parts are still around, and really help us on the assembly lines that we have. Thanks to Eli and Samuel, we have things that might not have been invented and it really helped our lives today so we don't have to do most things by hand.

__**The South **__

Dear Diary, Everywhere I look, I see dirt. Dirty clothes, dirty people, and dirty owners. The morning screams at me to wake up at an unbearable time, and the night seems like it never ends. I feel as thought my hands should be cut off because of all the work they have been through. We started with having crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo, but the proces then dropped after the American Revolution. Many farmers then wanted to save us [slaves] they started to grow a crop that needed little labor. That's how the whole cotton crisis started. Why me? Why did I have to get stuck working in the south while the north is big in the industry and has machines to do all the work for them. God Bless Eli Whitney for inventing the cotton gin. Who knrew that a person from the North could have such a big impact on the south. This cotton gin removes the seeds from the cotton so our poor hands could get a break. The South was all about the cotton, so we becae known as the cotton betl, the area of land where all hte cotton is. But I just don't get it. Why can't we all just get along and except each other for who we are? North and South, machines and farms, does it even matter? I mean, we are popular too. We have increased the growth of our cotton by so much, it should suprise everyone around us. Even though the North has so many advantages with all their technology, we have the advantages with the sale of our cotton. We have the science behind our sales which can help us in the future. Even though we had al these advantages, work was work. I worked harder than anyone ever could, and trying to escape was not an option. People from the north could not survive a day in the south. I guess our hard work pays off because we are great friends with Great Britain now, so I understand that is a plus. However, even though we seem like enemies with the North, we actually export our cotton to the northeastern textile industry. Trade is the outline of our lives; right next to our work force. If I would imagine a day in life without anyone working, everything would just fall apart. I work from sun up, to sun down, barely having time to breathe. I best behave though otherwise my owner will whip me and make me do extra work. Trying to escape is not an option with out failure in sight. When I'm not picking cotton, I am helping with the corn. Corn is our primary food crop and all the top 3 states for corn growing are in the south, go figure. The farmers are obsessed with the work they do and I feel that they shouldn't have power over us. Tobacco production just took way to long so we basically just gave up on it. Life on the farm isn't what you expect. You work until no end and obey until never can be reached. i really do wish I could just work in one of the first factories. It would be a lot less weight on my shoulders and I lot more hope in my heart. I admitt, the farmingmethods have improved but work is work. I see dirt, and that's all I will ever see. The only thing I am truly and surely hoping for is something that I don't think I will ever get in this cruel world. Freedom.
 * Compose a diary entry from a slave's point of view working on a farm. **

Sincerely, Harry

If you were a slave at this time, the south would not have been the right place for you. The south was terrible for the slaves. The slave houses on the plantions all really depended on the type of person that you were sold to. Most of the time, the slave quarters were not very nice and smelt awful. But if you got a nice slave owner, then you had a pretty good life compared to some of the other slaves. Slaves that didnt have a good life, tried to rebell against their owners and some even had the guts to try and escape throught the underground railroad. This railroad wasnt really underground, but helped the slaves get to the free north and out to Canada sometimes were the slave owners from the south couldnt get them. This was one of the ways that the slaves tried to get away. Black women were very religious along with the white men that usually owned the plantation. As far as the laws for slaves, the power was held in the owner's hands. Some slaves rebell to the the owner's because of the harsh conditions that they went through. This basically means that the slaves werent protected at all and that the american government brought them over for the people of the south. They stole the slaves lives away and thats why some blacks are still discriminated today.
 * Summarize the South's harsh living conditions, laws, and rebellions. **

The invention of the cotton gin made the South a one-crop economy which increased the need for slave labor. Without the increase of slaves, this ecomony that they are depending on will far apart. Before the American revolution, the three main crops of the South were tobacco, indigo, and rice. They still had cotton, but it wasn't as popular as these crops. However, when the cotton gin was invented, cotton became the number one priority for the plantations. The demand for more slave increased. Countries like Great Britian became friends with the South because of all the cotton they had exported to them. Without the slaves to help, there would be no foriegn relationships. The farms began to get bigger and more owners needed more slaves. Cotton was the thing that was keeping them together and if it was destoryed then they wouldn't have anything. As more and more slaves had been named to an owner, the trade with other cities began to grow. They started to trade with South Carolina, Georigia, and even Louisiana. Even though all of these states are in the south, some cotton was populated in more areas than others. Major cities was difficult because of the transportation routes, but they still got what they needed from the other cities. Ecomonically, this was huge for the South because they got a lot of money from exporting all the cotton. Other countries and cities relied on the South for the cotton because some might be more industrial based and they might not have the farming to support their own country. Even though only a couple of factories started up, economics had a big impact on the South. If they didn;t have their cotton, the economy would crash and they would lose to any sort of battle.They weren't trying to be better thananyone else, they just wanted to prove that they might have a way to raise the econmics in their region.
 * Analyze the facts of the one-crop economy and slave labor on the ecomomical impact. **