Northern and Southern ways of life during the Civil War.

1. Northern and Southern ways of life during the Civil War. Term #2 1/8/14 U.S. History Project by Ari

2. NORTHERNERS WERE AGAINST SLAVERY • A lot of Northerners were abolitionists who did not like the civil war and slavery. • Harriet Tubman was a woman who agreed with most of the Northerners that slavery is a bad thing by making slaves escape to the Underground Railroad. • Other Northerners helped slaves also get to freedom such as Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

3. SOUTHERNERS WERE TOWARDS SLAVERY • Southerners have owned slave farms where they had a big business in slaves. • The slaves in the south were working hard on the cotton farms with a little amount of pay. • Southerners also worked in peoples homes especially in Texas doing peoples clothes and dishes.

4. THE SOUTH HAD AGRICULTURE • The south grew many kinds of crops such as cotton which was the main crop. • The agriculture for the south was also corn, beans and other food. • The south grew other crops such as tobacco. Tobacco was also a big deal back then. • Slaves also helped harvesting corn and other agricultural products.

5. THE NORTH WAS MORE INDUSTRIOUS • The north made products by sharing tasks among the workers. • One worker would spin thread all day. One would also weave thread all day. • During the second step they designed factories which brought specialized workers to come together. • This is how our factories have developed over time.

6. SOUTHERN ECONOMY • The southern economy was slavery, cotton, corn, tobacco, and other agricultural products. • The major cash crop for the south was slavery which was worth billions of dollars. • The southern economy was wealthy based on slavery that the slave farms had. • People had huge slave farms in the south especially in Texas.

7. NORTHERN ECONOMY • The Northern economy was more industrious. • I have got to say that the Northern economy was really poor because this is when slaves get paid minimum wage. • But somehow factories improved the way to make clothes by using the cotton gin. • Also the moving parts in the factories risked people at work.

8. TRANSPORTATION IN THE NORTH • By 1800 and 1850 construction workers designed thousands of miles of roads and canals. • In 1807 Robert Fulton invented a steamboat. • The steam boat made it easier to transport goods and passengers. • In the 1840s canal designers started to make the canals deeper for steamboats. • They also had railroads.

9. TRANSPORTATION IN THE SOUTH • The south had railroads to transport people just like the north. • But in the south the railroad were not that long, in sight, and were not connected to all parts of a region in the area. • The shortage of railways would have a massive problems for the Civil War. • The transportation in the South was slow methods of transportation.

10. SOUTHERN LIFESTYLE • In the south women were to stay at home and take care of the home somewhat. • There was a lot of farming lifestyle that was in Texas. • There were also white Southerners who also farmed not just slaves. • The White slaveholders farmed with slaveholders or planters sometimes.

11. NORTHERN LIFESTYLE • The north was working on ways to make life such faster such as the telegraph being invented to communicate faster. • They also developed the ideas of railways and faster transportation. • Life in the North was more working in factories and creating new inventions such as the cotton gin. It was hard lifestyle.