Compare and contrast life in the north and

south during this period. (early 1800s)

By: Kelsey Warren, Madison Kowall, & Emily

Sfaelos.

North.

• The north didn’t own slaves.

• They had big factories & most of the people moved up north for jobs.

• It was so overcrowded people threw there waste out there windows and into the streets.

South.

• The south did own slaves.

• They grew mainly cotton, which made big money.

• They owned slaves to do there work.

• Most of the rich people lived in the south where the cotton was.

Slavery in the south.

• southern slavery grew out of the paradox the new continent presented to its European masters. So much land was available, so cheaply, that no one was willing to come to America and sign on to work as a laborer. The dream that drew Europeans across the Atlantic was owning acres of land or making a fortune in a trade or a craft.

Slavery in the South.• Close to two million slaves were brought to the American

South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years

has been African American, and as late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. The large

number of black people maintained as a labor force in the post-slavery South were not permitted to threaten the

region's character as a white man's country, however. The region's ruling class dedicated itself to the overriding principle of white supremacy, and white racism became the driving force of southern race relations. The culture of racism sanctioned and supported the whole range of

discrimination that has characterized white supremacy in its successive stages.

factories

• The first time they opened the factories it was just women but then after it was opened for a few years they would let men and children at any age work there and there were no rules or safety.

Farms

There were slaves working on the farm and sometimes other slaves that have been working on the farm for a long time would be in charge of the new slaves.