AIM 48 - How did the N use industrialization, the S use King Cotton, and the W use expansion

 I.  North, South, West

A. North

1. Transportation, communication changes
2. Industrialization, urbanization
3. Growth in large cities because of industrialization
4. Erie Canal linked parts of North East
5. Steamboats by Robert Fulton encouraged trade and expansion
6. Railroads
7. Cheaper more efficient methods of transportation
8. Industrial powerhouse within various factories
9. Anti Immigration - nativists - American Party - Know Nothing

B. South

1. Cotton gin increased cotton production
2. Southern plantation owners expanded slavery to expand cotton production
3. Slave codes = oppressed Africans, discouraged free blacks from living in South; avoid slave revolts

C. West

1. Beyond Mississippi
2.  Settle or Avoid
3. Little known beyond Lewis and Clark journal entries
4. American Indians
5. Manifest Destiny