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43 Goal: to complete your criterion for the north and the south and have them posted to your wikispaces page by the end of class

42 Goal: to compare the Northern and Southern economy, politics, and people 43 APK: northener) || * had a good source of income
 * South || Both || North ** (3) ** ||
 * * Dependent on farming
 * salves
 * plantations
 * Cotton Gin (made by Eli Whitney,
 * exports || * very diverse (economy)
 * no salves
 * very crowded living spaces
 * transportation
 * kids work ||

42 Goal: to learn about the Southern economy, politics, and people 43 APK: Life in the North was changed very rapidly. You went from making things by hand to making things to making things in assembly lines and making things in a factory. NEW: Video clip: The Impact of Regional Economies (text DVD)
 * The invention of the cotton gin made the South a one-crop economy and increased the need for salve labor.
 * Southern society centered around agriculture
 * The salve system in the Sout produced harsh living conditions and occasional rebellions.
 * Reasons to Support: || Reasons Not to Support ||
 * * Cotton Gin
 * Popular international
 * Made other cities more profitable || * There are more salves then white people
 * The south's economy is not very diverse
 * Time consuming, non-profitable
 * Caused civil war
 * Unreliable ||

42 Goal: to learn about the Northern economy, politics, and people 43 APK: iPod Touch I can play games, listen and download music, use for school I can lose track of time when I get sucked in New:
 * 1) The industrial revolution transformed the way goods were produced in the US
 * 2) The introduction of factories changed working life for many Americans in the North
 * 3) New form of transportation improved business, travel, and communication
 * 4) Advances in technology led to new inventions that continued to change daily life and work

42 Goal: to learn about the Northern and Southern economy, politics, and social 43 APK: || Write a short story showing how the steamboats in the transportation Revolution affected the Government. || What inventions from the North can you point out that we still have today? How do they affect your everyday life? || have it today? Why or why not? ||
 * irrated
 * war, countries, neighbors, workplace
 * Social || Political || Economic ||
 * North || North || North ||
 * Illustrate the differences or similarities between men's and women's working rights by Journal enteries.
 * South || South || South ||
 * Write an one act script to show the views of southern society by both black and white women, children, and men. || How did new laws hinder or help farmers. Were there any rebellions from conflicting views. Explain why the rebellions took place. || What are the Pro's and Con's of dropping salvery in the South for the economy? Would you rather

Journal entry (woman): I dare say, I think that I could go deaf from the noise in the mill. Yet still, this pays well, and I need to help support my family. The wages [here] are much better than the wages I got from spinning my own thread. Each day working in Lowell it gets harder and harder to breath. We can't open the windows and it gets all stuffy. There are some girls here as young as eleven- and it breaks my heart to see them. Their hands are swollen from the hard labor, and often times laced with cuts from straightening threads on the loom. I remember when I first came a girl got her hair caught in the loom... It is a requirement now, that we keep our hair tied back. I despise the life of a mill girl, but it is the only way!

New entry (man): I have just been hired to work in a new town. My curiousness was piqued when I heard about it. The name of this odd town is Slatersville. It was a good option, I believe, because the pay is better. My sons could also earn money, and my wife is expecting another child. We at least needed somewhere to settle down. The only thing thing that unnerves me is that I have heard stories of children loosing limbs from the machines. I can only hope Thomas and Bartholomew behave in their studies. Some of the prices in the general store are higher then I'd like. But what can I do? This is the best source of income I've had in a while. Where we stay is also ridiculously small. There are only two houses for all of us workers and our families, and things are getting very crowded.

Transportation Revolution story I remember when there were no trains. No cotton mills for families or young farm girls to work for. (nods vigorously) You youngsters ought to be grateful for what you have right now. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I'm dead and this is all a dream.(shrugs) But I'm here to have a talk with you, so listen up. I'm only talking about the northern transportation right now- I know it the best. This was only in the eighteen hundreds for the U.S. Quite some time back, but the memory is still clear as day, don't worry. Now, all the rage in transportation these days were the Steam powered boat, and the train. Perhaps you've heard of them. The first "popular", as I believe you would call it, Steamboat was introduced to the U.S. Robert Fulton. After testing his steam boat, the Clermont, in France, Robert Fulton had it go against current in the Hudson River on August ninth, 1807, if memory serves me well. Not everything was peachy, of course. There were some spats, like Gibbons v. Ogden, that helped our government by giving it more power by ending "ownership" over water ways by regulating trade. Well, that's the steamboat part, the trains never really affected the government too much. Anyhow, you're waking up now, so I've gotta run!

South Script:

Slave Master: These slaves are nice to have around they do all the work on the plantation. All I have to do is watch them and discpline. Slave Master's wife: Don't forget the nurses. I don't have to lift a finger around here. Salves Master's son: One day I get to inherite all this! I can't wait for my first salve auction. Man slave: I can't believe they treat as so terribly, as objects, not people. Woman slave (nurse): They don't even raise their own children! They have all of us nurses doing the hard work of raising their children. Child: I want to play and not pick cotton. I want to have a life of sucess, not of slavery.: Slave Master: Quiet you lot! Back to work or I'll whip you all! No rations for a week!

New Slavery Laws & rebellions- Nat Turner rebellion: This was one of the most vicious rebellions; it occured in 1831, Turner was a slve in Virginia. Believing that God had told him to end slavery, Turner led a group of slaves in an attempt to murder all slave holder's and their family. His group suceeded in murdering 60 white people. More than one hundred innocent slaves were murdered as an attempt to stop the rebellion. There were other stopped rebellions as well. Rebellions took place, because slaves didn't want to be enslaved (obviously) and wanted to be free like the white people. Strict laws, slave codes, prohibited many things, such as education for slaves, the ability of slaves to travel of their own free will, and the fining and whippping of any person teaching the enslaved to read and write. These all helped the white people keep good control over slaves.

Some pros of slavery: You didn't have to do the work yourself They'd care for your kids you could get rich off of them. They could have kids you could auction off for profit They worked all day with no lunches

Cons: Rebellions They could easily die Could not cooperate buy freedom= you must buy more slaves.

So for the economy, it wouldn't make an easy profit- all that land to farm and no one to farm it. But, it could help the whole country's economy, and even it out between plantation owners and yeomen. More land would be opened up for new people to farm it. Emily and I would like to have slavery today- but in a less sadistic form. You would be paying and proparly providing for the slaves. They would be educated, but you could control them. They would still be able to buy freedom- so in a way we'd kind of llike indentured servants. Whay person wouldn't want to take the easy way out when it comes to work?