North and South

Essential Questions

  • How does technology change the way people live?

  • How do people adapt to their environment?

  • Why do people make economic choices?

Students will know:

  • the causes and consequences of the nineteenth-century transportation revolution

  • the impact of technological advancements on the agricultural economy and slave labor

  • the various immigrant groups that came to the United States during the early 1800s and their contributions

  • the reasons various urban centers developed during the 1800s

  • the differences between the economies of the North and South

  • the influence of individuals on social and political developments in the South

  • the role of slavery in the development of sectional conflict

Students will be able to:

  • identify and evaluate how the innovations in industry, travel, and communications changed the lives of Americans in the 1800s

  • understand cause-and-effect relationships between immigration and its impact on cities and industry in the North

  • analyze and compare the economies of the North and South

  • analyze and describe the living conditions of enslaved African Americans in the South and the unique culture they developed

Predictable Misunderstandings

Students may think:

  • Most Southerners owned slaves and operated large plantations.

  • The impact of technological advancements was limited to the Northern industrial states.

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