Study+Guide+-+Sectionalism+Pt.+I

toc =Key Terms & People=


 * Eli Whitney
 * Robert Fulton
 * cotton gin
 * Industrial Revolution
 * industrialist
 * immigrant
 * wage slave
 * discrimination
 * segregation
 * agrarian
 * industrialist
 * [|Second Great Awakening]
 * abolitionist

=**Main Ideas**=


 * 1) Explain how differences in the geography and climate led the North to develop an economy based on industry and the South to develop an economy on agriculture.
 * 2) What kind of gov't did northern industrialists favor? Why did Southern agrarians fear northern industrialists and look down upon their methods of labor?
 * 3) Identify why southerners opposed spending government money on internal transportation improvements within the nation?
 * 4) How did the cotton gin and slavery affect the South's economy and society?
 * 5) Identify the arguments used by Southerners to preserve the institution of slavery and by abolitionists to overturn the institution of slavery.
 * 6) How did the Second Great Awakening and the subsequent reform movements further the divisions between the North and the South?

=Resources=
 * Southern Society" [Hippocampus]
 * //Economy of the South// (Hart 256)
 * //The Economics of Slavery// (Hart 272)
 * Cotton is King [Hippocampus]
 * Growth of the cotton industry [PDF]
 * The Growth of Industry (//Hart 258 - 259)//
 * "The Growth of Industry" [Hippocampus]
 * //The Second Great Awakenng// (Hart 242)
 * //Fighting Slavery// (Hart 246 - 247)
 * “Conditions of Slaves” [Hippocampus]
 * [|Abolitionism] [Hippocampus]
 * Southern Argument for Slavery [website]
 * Wage Slaves [website]

=**Extensions**=




 * Sectionalism Practice Quiz

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