Our new unit will study industrialization and the plantation systems in the South. We will then explore the reform efforts that cropped up around the country. Some, like education, labor reform, and women's suffrage were related to the changes brought about by industrialization. Others, like abolition, were responses to the system of slave labor (remember: the cotton gin created a HUGE demand for cotton, which increased the demand for slave labor in the South).
Textbook Resources:
Chapters 11 & 12 in “America: History of our Nation"
Vocabulary:
Industrial Revolution urbanization cotton gin turnpike
Factory system telegraph slave code corduroy road
Capitalist famine spiritual canal
Mass production nativist discrimination interchangeable parts
Summative:
Planned for the week of 4/7
