1. Industry vs. Cotton (North vs. South)

2. Transportation Revolution
The National Road – nation’s first highway
Stretched from Maryland to Illinois
Railroad travel
Faster than stagecoaches or wagons
Unlike steamboats trains could go any where track was laid
Expanded trade
Settled the west

3. Water Transportation
Erie Canal – created in New York to connect the Great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
Great for trade & opened a fast route to the west
Steamboat
Made river travel more reliable and upstream travel easier
Faster, more efficient, and cheaper way to move goods

4. Progress Industrial Revolution
From hand tools to large, complex machines
From skilled artisans to unskilled assembly line workers
Henry Ford = assembly line
Eli Whitney = interchangeable parts
From home-based workshops to factories housing hundreds of workers
From selling goods locally to selling goods nationwide

5. North Industrial economy based on manufacturing goods
Wanted high tariffs to protect its products from cheap foreign labor
Favored a strong national government to build roads, railroads, & protect trade
Did not use slave labor- employed immigrants in the factories

6. Cotton is King! 1793 – Eli Whitney builds the cotton gin
Quickly and efficiently combed the seeds out of cotton bolls
Cotton now dominated the region b/c textile mills were expanding in Europe and cotton was needed badly!
By 1860 southern grown cotton accounted for nearly 2/3 of the total export trade of the United States
Demand for slave labor skyrockets!

7. Slavery Task system – small farms Gang system – large plantations
Workers given a specific set of jobs
When those jobs were finished the rest of the day was on their own
Gang system – large plantations
Workers organized into work gangs that labored from sunup to sundown
Driver – director of the gang system
Chosen for loyalty or willingness to cooperate
Ensure that workers continued to work all day

8. Slave Codes
The Slave Codes were laws that forbid enslaved men and women from…
Owning property
Leaving the slaveholder’s premises w/o permission
Owning of firearms
Testifying in court against a white person
Learning to read and write
They were viewed as property and were treated that way

9. South Farming economy based on cotton production
Opposed high tariffs because the South imported much of its manufactured products
Favored weak national government
Scared a strong government might end slavery
Used slavery because of the plantation system which required much labor.

10. REMEMBER THIS!!!!!
ALABAMA BECAME A STATE IN 1819!!!!!

11. Missouri Compromise
1819 – Missouri applied to become a state (wanted to be a slave state)
If accepted it would disrupt the balance of power between free states & slave states in Congress
Missouri Compromise
Missouri entered as a slave state
Maine entered as a free state
The line of latitude b/c the boundary for future entrance of free & slave states
Above line = free
Below line = slave

13. Presidents 1824 – John Quincy Adams elected president
Political Party – National Republicans
1828 – Andrew Jackson elected president
Political Party – Democratic-Republicans