17th May, 2018 American Civil War

PCS:

Purpose: Understanding the differences in

economic status of the North and South and
Sectionalism

Content: Economies of the North and South

Sectionalism

Skills: Interpreting historical accounts

Source analysis
 Economic
Differences
NORTH SOUTH

Industrial - weapons manufacturing, Agricultural - cash crops like tobacco

between North and leather goods, iron production, textiles

South
Slavery & Economy: (1:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfw9mLjh7YM
Commercial and manufacturing
economy, comfortable in local market
By 1860, 90 percent of the nation's
manufacturing output came from
northern states.
The North produced 17 times more
cotton and woolen textiles than the
South, 30 times more leather goods, 20
times more pig iron, and 32 times more
firearms. The North produced 3,200
firearms to every 100 produced in the
South. Also significantly higher quality
railroads
Attracted mass-European immigration
through the mid-19th century -
approximately 23 million
Centre of trade from industrialisation
with bustling ports like Boston
and cotton
Highly dependent upon the sale of
staples to a world market
By 1815, cotton was the most valuable
export in the United States; by 1840, it
was worth more than all other exports
combined
Little manufacturing capability, about
29 percent of the railroad tracks, and
only 13 percent of the nation's banks
Not much attraction for immigrants –
only 9 million immigrants in the states
of the Confederacy
Expansive plantations spread apart to
support agriculture
 Questions
Worksheet of Southern • Why does Calhoun, in the first extract,
Justification believe slavery to be a ‘positive good’?
• According to Harper, in the second extract,
why are the conditions of slavery better than
those of white free labourers in the North?
• What criticisms does Hammond, in the third
extract, make of the North?

What understanding can we gain of the

Southern view of slavery and the economy?
 • As the economic basis and social
Sectionalism composition of the regions within the
United States changed, so too did the
culture, laws and practices of slave and
non-slave states.
• Sectionalism: an adherence or
commitment to local or regional concerns
resulting from a division of ideological,
social and economical differences
between the North and South between
1800 and 1850.
• North: urban, industrial, manufactured
goods v. South: agricultural, slave-based,
raw materials
 In your books:

Why might mechanization and industrialisation be

an advantage to the North’s economy? Would this
manifest tension with the South?