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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