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North and South Study Guide
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• Industry in the North and Life in the North

  • Cotton was the South’s major crop.

  • John Deere invented the light weight plow.

  • Popular Elias Howe invented the sewing machine.

  • Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.

  • The Rocket was the first steam powered steam engine.

  • People worked log hours for low wages in factories.

  • Factory machines had no safety equipment.

  • Children worked in factories.

  • Trade unions were established and strikes were held to improve conditions for workers.

  • Many immigrants arrived in the United States. They left their home country to find a new and better life.

  • African Americans faced racial discrimination when the searched for a job.

 

• Cotton Kingdom in the South and the Fight for Freedom

  • Slavery led to sectionalism between the North and South.

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.

  • Enslaved Africans made up more than 1/3 of the South’s population.

  • Southern states passed the Slave Codes that forbid Africans certain rights:

    • 1. Forbidden to gather in-groups more than three.

    • 2.  Not able to leave their owners land without a pass.

    • 3.  Not allowed to own guns.

    • 4.  Not allowed to learn to read or write

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• Nat Turner led a revolt against slavery.

 

• Andrew Jackson was elected the President in 1828.

  • Frederick Douglass became the most famous abolitionist. He published the newspaper called the North Star.

  • The Underground Railroad, a network of abolitionists, was established to help free black slaves.

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth fought for women’s rights.

  • Public Education for children was established.

  • Africans American schools received less money to educate black children.