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Bell Ringer: Begin a new Unit 6 Essential Vocabulary page. Include the following definition in your own words: Sectionalism: the tendency to focus on regions' interests over the good of the whole; loyalty to a state/section, rather than a nation/country Agenda: 1. Bell Ringer 2. Civil “Word Splash” 3. Division (video)
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On a sheet of paper, write down every word that you associate with the Civil War
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9L UoKeTodw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9L UoKeTodw Segment watched in Class: 07:45 – 16:17 (Cotton in the South; Factories in the North)
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Bell Ringer: Describe the way in which slaves, plantation owners, merchants, factory owners, and factory workers are all connected. (Who depended on who for what?) Agenda: 1. Bell Ringer 2. Homework Check 3. Sectionalism and connections… the road to conflict (Cornell Notes) 4. All Night Forever
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Industrialization: the change from home/ hand production to factory/mechanical production. Began in US as a result of the War of 1812: America needed to be “economically independent”
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Ind. Rev. expanded transportation and added to growing industry. New towns were built around factories (Lowell, MA) and transportation routes (Buffalo, NY) Steam and electrical power added to productivity
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Increasing immigrant population (Irish and German) Supported tariffs on imported goods Against continued expansion West Supported federally funded “public projects” (railroads, canals, etc)
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Agrarian Economy (based on agriculture) Cotton (deep South) Tobacco (Upper South) Rice (SC & LA) Indigo (SC) Sugar (LA, FL, MS) Needed more land (w/ slavery) to grow. Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, and Kansas (Big fight to come!)
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Almost no manufacturing, but agriculturally independent Needed to be able to trade w/ Europe as well as North (No tariffs!) Land and slaves became the path to wealth. All levels of society defended slavery Biblical Slaves better off “here”
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Northwest mimicked the North. Southwest mimicked the South. Major conflict in the center
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Civil War: The Cause, by Ken Burns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSf2L7QYoI
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