Jeopardy Review

Jeopardy

Link to Abolition PowerPoint

Map of Free States and Slave States

Click Here for the Link

What led to Sectionalism in the United States.

Complete the Urbanization Study

Look at each link to help you answer questions about urbanization in the Northern States. 

Urbanization Questions Link  - use the links to help you answer these questions.

Urban 1a (link 1), Urban 1b (link 2)
Urban 2
Urban 3
Urban 4a (link 1) , Urban 4b (link 2)
Urban 5
Urban 6
Urban 7


Preview these videos and read the link provided below.

Video 1 - Regional Differences in the United States (1820-1860)

Video 2 - Sectionalism - South 

Video 3 - Sectionalism - North

Video 4 - Focus on the end of the video when she mentions views on the role Government.


Read - North Vs. South (Political, Economic, Geographical, Social differences).

Webquest Links

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

http://eliwhitney.org/new/museum/eli-whitney/cotton-gin

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plantation.htm

www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/living/history2.html

The Impact of the Cotton Gin

After the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became America’s leading crop.  Cotton was king.  In 1790, America produced 1,500 pounds of cotton.  By 1800, production had increased to 35,000 pounds.  By 1815, production had reached 100,000 pounds. In 1848, production exceeded 1,000,000 pounds.  Simultaneously, slavery spread across the Deep South.  In 1790, the slave population was concentrated in Virginia on the tobacco plantations and along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia on the rice plantations.    In 1820, slavery had spread westward to Mississippi.  By the Civil War, about 4 million slaves lived in the South.  Click the link below to find out more about the cotton gin's impact on the south.

Unintended Consequences - Cotton Gin

Industrial Revolution Powerpoint

Industrial Revolution Inventions

The Industrial Revolution resulted in the most profound, far-reaching changes in the history of humanity. And its influence continues to sweep through our lives today. The last 250 years of industrialization have altered our lives more than any event or development in the past 12,000 years: in where we live, how we work, what we wear, what we eat, what we do for fun, how we are educated, how long we live and how many children we have. The Industrial Revolution provided the countries that first adopted it with the technological and economic advantages necessary to eventually rule most of the world. In short, the Industrial Revolution is the “game changer” of modern world history. More than anything else, it’s what makes the modern world, well, “modern.” We are going to look at the Industrial Revolution inventions and their impact on the United States. 

Click this link for the invention poster directions.

Click this link for a Google Drawing Poster Example

New Richmond History Link

Link to New Richmond History Book

Lowell Mills vs. Foxconn

     In the early 1800's, Francis Cabot Lowell started a series of factories in Massachusetts. Factories before the Lowell Mill would obtain thread (cotton) from various places. However, Francis Cabot Lowell brought spinning and weaving thread together in one place. Like many other factories/mills, these places were built along moving rivers.
    These new factories provided a place for women to leave rural farms and obtain work. These women also had an opportunity to live at the mill and earn an education. Read the two accounts of people, Lowell workers and Charles Dickens, to make generalizations about factory life.

• Harriet described her life inside the Lowell Factory.
• Read these two letters from Mary Paul a Lowell Worker 

Questions:
1. From the readings, list 3 generalizations about factory life in the Lowell Mills.

• Charles Dickens' account of Lowell Mills 

Questions:
1. What was Charles' impression of the mills?
2. Why do you think his account is different than the workers account?


Now that you have an idea of factory life for the first american industrial revolution, do these same treatment and working conditions exist today? Watch the video and pay attention to:

1. What is this factory making?
2. Who works in this factory? Kids? Adults? 
3. How are these people treated?

• Watch this video.

1. Make 3 generalizations about factory life at Foxconn.
2. Come up with 3 trends that occur during Industrial Revolutions.
3. Construct 2 paragraphs comparing both life and working conditions at both factories.

Industrial Revolution Video

Foxconn

Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

Industrial Revolution vocab link

First 5 Presidents Unit Assessment

Choose 1:

Cartoon Instructions - with partner
DBQ Essay - alone