1. North & South Project
Darian Almonte
2/25/14

2. Transportation In The North
National Roads – They had better roads, inexpensive way to deliver products .
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.
HY ! D A

3. Water ! Southern rivers made water travel easy and cheap.
Transportation In The South
Water ! Southern rivers made water travel easy and cheap.
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.

4. Economy of the north • 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!!

5. Economy of the south • 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.

6. Way of life in the North
• 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)

7. Way of life in the south • Climate – mild winters; long, hot,
humid summers
• Natural features:
− coastline: swamps and
marshes (rice & sugarcane,
fishing)
inland - indigo, tobacco, &
corn
− Towns follow rivers inland!

8. The North's Strength’s 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.

9. The South’s Strength’s
• 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.

10. THE END