Essential Questions: 

1. What new inventions have significantly affected American history?

2. Can you predict reasons why slavery spreads in the South in the early 1800s?

3. How do people show pride and loyalty to the region or nation in which they live?

Key Ideas

Section 1 - New industries and inventions changed the way that people lived and worked in the early 1800s

Section 2 - The invention of the cotton gin and the demand for cotton caused slavery to spread in the South

Section 3 - While patriotic pride increased national unity, tensions grew between the North and the South