1. Northern Industry vs. Southern Agriculture
Sectionalism
Northern Industry
vs.
Southern Agriculture

2. Northern Industry Main Points (Left Column)
Leave 3 lines of space between each 1. Why did industrialization spread in New England? 2. Workers Organize 3. Middle Class Emerges 4. Immigrants

3. Southern Agriculture Main Points (Right Column)
Leave 3 lines of space between each 1. Cotton Production Surges 2. Need for slave labor 3. Economic Consequences 4. Cultural Consequences

4. Northern Industry 1. Why did industrialization spread in New England?
Rivers
Investors
Cheap Labor (immigrants)

5. Northern Industry 2. Workers Organize
Form unions to seek better wages and working conditions
Hold strikes
Courts are not on their side

6. Northern Industry 3. Middle Class Emerges Stood above working class
Men work in offices
Move to outskirts of cities
Why?

7. Northern Industry 4. Immigrants Irish & Germans
Nativism Emerges (3rd Type of Division) – favoring native born over immigrants
Do you see that today?

8. Southern Agriculture 1. Cotton Production Surges
Due to cotton gin (increase demand for cotton and increased slave numbers)
Filled new demand from textile mills
South becomes Cotton Kingdom

9. Southern Agriculture 2. Need for slave labor
1808 illegal slave trade started
Slavery becomes more vital than ever
“Necessary Evil”-What does this mean?

10. Southern Agriculture 3. Economic Consequences
Cotton prices go up and down
No urban growth
No immigrants = less representation in House

11. Southern Agriculture 4. Cultural Consequences Lack of education
Focus was primarily on farming
Racial superiority
White over Black