Worlds+of+North+and+South

toc = Research =
 * You will need to research the following key terms and main ideas using the resources below to pass the certification exam. Record your information in the form of an outline and place it within your Social Studies Only notebook/binder. Your outline can include bullet points, pictures/diagrams, or any other creative note-taking strategy. Make sure you can acknowledge ( cite ) multiple sources for the research you have gathered in your notebook.**

Key Terms & People

 * Using the resources listed below, write a definition for each of the following terms or people listed in your //Social Studies Only// notebook/binder. __//Make sure you can acknowledge the source for the information you used for your answer.//__**
 * Eli Whitney
 * cotton gin
 * Francis Cabot Lowell
 * agrarians
 * industrialists
 * plantation

**Main Ideas**
1. What physical geographic and climate features made the North well suited for industrial and technological development and the South better suited for //agrarian// (farming) development?
 * **Resources**
 * History Alive pg. 254 - 255

2. How did technological advances in the North change people’s ways of life and impact the Northern economy?
 * **Think about:**
 * Skilled craftspeople, immigrants, & factory workers
 * City life
 * Northern industrialists (Factory owners)
 * Transportation
 * **Resources:**
 * History Alive pg. 257 – 260, 262, 263
 * "The Effects of Industry" – Hippocampus
 * Irish & German” Immigration

3. Identify the significance of cotton and the //cotton gin// with regards to how it impacted the Southern economy and the Southern way of life.
 * **Think About:**
 * Cotton production
 * Land holdings & political power
 * Importance of slavery
 * Characteristics of white Southern society
 * **Resources:**
 * History Alive pg. 256, 262-264, 272
 * [[file:Technological Innovations & King Cotton.pdf]]
 * “Cotton is King” – Hippocampus

4. Compare and contrast the lives and opportunities of free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.
 * **Resources**
 * History Alive pgs. 264-265, 270-271

5. Identify the reasons and strategies used to both preserve and overturn the condition of slavery in America.
 * **Think about:**
 * Northern abolitionists
 * Slave codes and laws
 * Wage slaves
 * **Resources**
 * “Condition of Slaves” – Hippocampus
 * “Controlling Slaves & Slave Resistance” History Alive pgs. 276 – 278
 * “Fighting Slavery” – History Alive pg. 246 - 247
 * Southern Argument for Slavery -
 * Wage Slaves
 * Slave Life & Slave Codes

Why did a wave of immigrants come from northern Europe to America from 1845 - 1860? What kinds of nationalistic opposition did they face upon their arrival?
 * //Immigrants Arrive in the North// (Hart 266)
 * Irish & German” Immigration [website]

=**Extensions**= The information below is //OPTIONAL// reading and viewing. It is meant only to extend the knowledge you have gained from class discussions and the primary resources listed above. media type="custom" key="3670987"
 * Southern Defense of Slavery 1
 * Southern Defense of Slavery 2
 * Southern Defense of Slavery 3
 * Innovative Transportation