Economic and Social Issues that lead sectionalism and nationalism

Economic and Social Issues that lead sectionalism and nationalism NCSCOS 2.03

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Macro Concepts Change-the transformation of a group of people, pace or government.

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Micro Concepts Industrialization-the system of creating things using machines.

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Innovation-the process of improving and updating technology.

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Nationalism-a belief that a country’s people are superior to others.

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System-an organized way of doing something.

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Sectionalism-a belief that certain sections of a country [North and South] have unique ideas.

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Interchangeable Parts-machine parts that can be used in multiple ways.

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Internal Improvements-better ways to do things based on people inside of a company.

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Factory System-process using large numbers of workers to make goods.

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Plantation System-process set up to have large farms with large numbers of slaves.

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Slavery-forced labor.

The Industrial Revolution 

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The Industrial Revolution may be best described as the change in the way businesses manufactured products. Instead of making things one item at a time by skilled craftsman factories and machinery made products. Northern states became industrial. Southern states remained agricultural.

Industrialization: Some Examples  Eli Whitney-Invented and patented a machine that separated cotton seeds from cotton plants. Made it easier and faster to turn cotton into textiles. Removed the need for human labor [slaves] to separate cotton seeds but increased the demand for slavery to pick more cotton.

 John Deere-Invented a steel plow and other devices to mechanize farming further decreasing reliance on human labor [slaves]

 Cyrus McCormick-Invented a mechanical reaper to harvest crops without the need of human labor [slaves].

 All of these inventions completely changed the Cotton Kingdom of the South  The slave system was forever changed because machines did the jobs once performed by human beings.

The Northern Advantages 

Samuel Morse invented a signaling code [language] that became uniform [fit for everyone].

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The code was used for the telegraph which was a machine used to transmit messages through the airwaves.

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Businesses in the North used this to communicate [used later on in the Civil War].

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Robert Fulton-invented and successfully sold a steam powered boat. Trade and travel was transformed from wind power [depending on weather] to coal power [controlled by people]. People could be transported more easily and faster [this was beneficial to the economy]. The Erie Canal was a manmade water way created to transport goods between Canada and the U.S. [steamboats were the primary method of travel]. U.S. commerce was tremendously improved because land obstacles no longer slowed the transportation of goods.

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