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Regions of 1800s America

Regions of 1800s America. The Northeast, The South, and The Northwest. Region 1: The Northeast. Farming. Small family farms. Grew fruit, vegetables, dairy. Usually no hired or slave help. Grains grew in midwest , where the soil was better. Shipping.

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Regions of 1800s America

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  1. Regions of 1800s America The Northeast, The South, and The Northwest

  2. Region 1: The Northeast

  3. Farming Small family farms. Grew fruit, vegetables, dairy. Usually no hired or slave help. Grains grew in midwest, where the soil was better.

  4. Shipping New England was the shipping capital of the U.S. Whaling was a huge industry for the whale oil. Steamboats began to replace sail ships.

  5. Triangle Trade

  6. The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution: Instead of being made by hand, goods were now made by complex machines in large factories.

  7. Northeast Factories Many of the workers were recent immigrants from Ireland, England, and Germany. Took raw materials from the rest of the country and made them into products. (Cotton from the South, Lumber from the Northwest.)

  8. Cities Grow As factories grew, life in the Northeast became centered around large cities. With the cities grew large slums where many of the immigrants and factory workers lived.

  9. Politics in the Northeast Cities were run by big political “machines” like Tammany Hall in New York. Gave immigrants a voice in politics. Anti-immigrant parties also grew in response to immigrants gaining more power. (The Know Nothing Party)

  10. Region 2: The South

  11. Characteristics of The South • Primarily agrarian (Farm-based.) • “Cotton Is King!” * 1860 5 mil. bales a yr. (57% of total US exports). • Slave labor. • Few factories, few cities. • Poor transportation system.

  12. Southern Society (1850) “Slavocracy”[plantation owners] 6,000,000 The “Plain Folk”[white yeoman farmers] Black Freemen 250,000 Black Slaves3,200,000 Total US Population  23,000,000[9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

  13. Southern Population

  14. Southern Agriculture

  15. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

  16. Changes in Cotton Production 1820 1860

  17. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

  18. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

  19. Region 2: The Northwest Frontier

  20. Frontier The dividing line between the wilderness and civilization.

  21. Travel on the Frontier Rivers were the easiest way to travel. There were no roads. Pioneers who had to travel by land had to cut their own roads. They carried very little with them. They ate only what they brought with them or found in the woods.

  22. Typical Frontier House Families cleared the land to start their own farms. Grew food to eat themselves. Canned food so they could get through the winter. If they had extra food, they traded it for tools and supplies.

  23. Traveling Workers and Peddlers There weren’t any stores nearby most farms. Traveling peddlers went from town to town selling goods. (Pots, pans, farm tools, etc.) Sometimes skilled workmen came to towns. (Shoemakers, weavers, etc.)

  24. Towns Grew Up As small frontier towns grew, they got stores, churches, and maybe a school.

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