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Warm-Up: Monday, February 3, 2014

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Warm-Up: Monday, February 3, 2014

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  1. Spinning Yarn The Boston Manufacturing Company employed mostly young women, who worked for a few years after leaving school and before getting married. Conditions for these women were often dangerous, and their private lives were closely controlled. Imagine you are one of these young workers and write a diary entry about your life. Warm-Up: Monday, February 3, 2014 5 minutes Please complete your warm-up for today by going to Edmodo and clicking on the link to the Google Form. (5 minutes)

  2. Blendspace –Road to War

  3. Objective(s) for Today: • I will be able to compare the effects of political, economic, and social factors on slaves and free blacks. • I will be able to analyze the effect of slavery on the North, South, and West. • I will be able to compare the North and South in terms of physical, human, and economic characteristics.

  4. ESPN factors • ESPN development often creates widely different, sometime conflicting, regions within one nation. I will be able to compare the effects of political, economic, and social factors on slaves and free blacks.

  5. NORTH - Economic • Economy based on manufacturing, unskilled laborers • Transportation: Steamboats, clipper ships, canals, and railroads

  6. NORTH - Social • Growth of cities • Free African-Americans • Immigrants

  7. NORTH - Political • Tended toward federalism

  8. NORTH - Environmental • Four distinct regions • Thin rocky soil, jagged coastlines, thick forests • Cold/moderate climate

  9. SOUTH - Economic • Economy based on agriculture, small farms, plantations—slaves used to raise cash crops • Transportation: Few rail lines, River travel—River boats transport people and goods

  10. SOUTH - Social • Plantation owners • Yeoman • Tenant farmers • Free African Americans • Slaves

  11. SOUTH - Political • Tended toward a states’ rights stance

  12. SOUTH - Environmental • Mild winters • Hot humid summers • Wide coastal plains, swamps, marshes, wide rivers

  13. Impact of slavery on different sections of the United States • North: Illegal, abolitionists as well as non-abolitionists • South: slaves were viewed as property • West: conflicts and balance of free v slave state

  14. Key Questions • Why was there little industry in the south? (T.P.S.) • How did improvements in transportation affect the economy of the North? (T.P.S.)

  15. Tie it Together • I will be able to compare the effects of political, economic, and social factors on slaves and free blacks.

  16. Map Analysis – Twiddla

  17. SALT and Question on Blendspace • What impact do political, economic, and social factors have on slaves and free blacks?

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