Life+in+the+North+&+South+Before+the+Civil+War

=Life in the North=

Objectives:
Summarize how new inventions changed manufacturing and farming in the North. Explain how railroads and clipper ships helped the northern economy. Describe factory conditions in the 1840's. Identify what factory workers hoped to accomplish by joining together. Explain how free African Americans were treated in the North.

=Life in the South=

Objectives:
Identify how the cotton gin improved cotton production in the South. Explain how the South became an agricultural economy. Describe the ways the South was dependent on the North. Name the groups of white southerners that made up southern society. Describe how free African Americans and enslaved African Americans were treated. Explain how African Americans resisted slavery.