1. Southern reactions to Industrialization
Friday March 31, 2017
Southern reactions to Industrialization

2. Agenda Friday March 31, 2017
Do Now: Based on the information gathered over the past two days, do you believe that the South needed to modernize its economy to compete with the North’s economic power or not? Defend your position with information gathered in perspectives activity and key steps in the cotton cycle.
Do Map analysis and write results on map sheets.
Complete think pair share.
HW:
E.Q. Sheets due April 11th, 2017.
Unit test April 11th 2017.

3. Changes in Cotton Production
What major change in cotton production do you see in this slide?
What factors may have lead to the spread of the “cotton kingdom”?
How might the cotton cycle that we discussed yesterday benefit from this expansion of production?
What major geographic features are located near plantations?

4. Southern Agriculture Do any of the agricultural areas overlap? Why ?
Southern Yeoman (small farmers who owned no slaves) produced much of the wheat and tobacco. Why might this be.

5. Southern Manufacturing
Each red dot indicates over 700 people involved in manufacturing.
Light blue dots indicate
Dark blue is 0-31.
Compare this chart to the map on slide 4.How do the manufacturing areas match up with the agricultural areas.

6. Southern railroads Where areas might these railroads connect?
How might this impact southern development?

7. Value of wealth in U.S. by 1860
Each category is listed by total amount of money invested in each industry.
What are the top three sources of wealth for the American economy and how much money is invested in each?
Which items on the list would the northern economy invest in? Where might the southern businessman invest his money?
Discussion: based on the information this chart how could the south insure that its economy could continue to expand?

8. Southern views on industrialization
Southern politicians opposed industrialization for a variety of reasons name one?
Calhoun believes the southern people are serfs(or slaves) of the cotton system why might he think this?

9. Think pair share wrap up
What factor do you think is the most important that limited the economic development of the south?
Defend your answer with information from the map activities.