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What Was Life Like

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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..

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