NORTH & SOUTH PROJECT

DARIAN ALMONTE

2/25/14

National Roads – They had better roads, inexpensive way to deliver products .

Transportation In The North

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Ships & Canals – river travels fast, steam boats, and row boats .

Rail road – steam-powered machine ( fastest transportation and travels across land, down valleys and up mountain ranges.

Water ! Southern rivers made water travel easy and cheap.

Transportation In The South

Southern town sprang up along water ways.

Transportation - The south had horses, trains, and steam boats. But the only thing with there transportation is it wasn’t as good as the north. Because the north had a bigger population and more people came up with ideas on how to build things. And more people helped build tracks and machines.

• MORE Cities & Factories

• Industrial Revolution: Introduction of the Machine • products were made cheaper and faster

• shift from skilled crafts people to less skilled laborers

• Economy BOOST!!

Economy of the north

• Agriculture: Plantations and Slaves.

− White Southerners made living off the land.

− Cotton Kingdom – Eli Whitney.

•cotton made slavery more Important.

•cotton spread west, so slavery increases.

Economy of the south

• Climate – frozen winters, hot/humid summers.

• Natural features – coastline, bays, and harbors fishermen, shipbuilding,

Inland - rocky soil – farming hard; turned to trade and crafts (timber for shipbuilding)

WAY OF LIFE IN THE NORTH

• Climate – mild winters; long, hot, humid summers

• Natural features:− coastline: swamps and marshes (rice & sugarcane, fishing)

inland - indigo, tobacco, & corn− Towns follow rivers inland!

Way of life in the south

STRENGTHS

• More people than South.

• 90% of nation’s manufacturing in North.

• more RR tracks (will become nation’s biggest business post-civil war)

WEAKNESSES

• Military Leaders 1/3 of nation’s military officers returned to the South Many remaining officers too old for combat.

• and they must invade the south.

The North's Strength’s

The South’s Strength’s

STRENGTHS

• Fighting a defensive battle.

• Great Military Leaders.

WEAKNESSES

• Economy− wealth in land & slaves Few factories to produce guns and military Supplies.

• Transportation Problem = lacked RR network & Transportation.

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