Looking at this data, what kind of conclusion Could you make
about life in the Mid 1800s?
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Very Urban over half people lived in cities! Industrialized =
Manufacturing, Factory Jobs! Roads, Canals, Rail Lines,
Rivers.
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Zane Education The North Before the War Farming is still very
important. City Life = Jobs, but problems with Crime, Sanitation
(human waste and animal waste), Pollution, Disease. But Education
was available (mostly boys) and most African Americans were free.
Most Northern Factory / City Dwellers had a shorter life expectancy
than a slave in the South.
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Farming is main occupation. Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin will cause
Cotton Boom Society split between: Elite Planters, yeoman farmers,
Dirty poor whites, and Enslaved Africans.
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Little industry, few roads, and even fewer rail lines. VERY
Rural! 98 Atlanta is largest city. Zane Education The South Before
the War
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By 1850, 3.6 million African American = 37% of Population
African Americans 93 % Population is Enslaved / 7 % thats free
lives northward. Poor White Farmers - Hunt & live off land
Yeoman Farmers - Own 4 or less slaves, - Modest living, majority Of
population, work Land themselves. Planters Controlled local govt,
the economy, & social life of the community. Owned 20 or more
slaves
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Effects: - Creation of the cotton belt State economies based on
cotton production. - Huge rise in cotton production. - Westward
spread of farming in the South. - Expansion of the slavery system
(will new territories allow it?? ) - Slower urban grown in the
South than in the North (Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans). -
Northern state pass Emancipation Laws (set the slaves free) -
Supporters of Slavery said it was a necessary evil Although morally
wrong, it was economically necessary! The Cotton Boom from 1790s to
1860s Causes: - Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whiney -
Available slave labor
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North + East = Industrial South = Cotton West = Nations Bread
Basket Different Regions Linked by Railroads, Canals, and Roads
Despite differences, each region needed the others..
