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Chapter 7 Notetaking Study Guide

Now you are ready to answer the Chapter 7 Focus Question: Why did Americans take different paths in the early 1800s?

� Fill in the following charts to help you answer this question. Use the notes that you took for each section.

Refer to this page to answer the Unit 4 Focus Question on page 154.

The North and South Take Different Paths

The North The South

Economy• Depended on industry• Some important inventions of Industrial

Revolution:1. spinning jenny2.3.

• The factory system is the____________ ________________________________.

• Labor conditions were poor. • __________ labor was often used.

Economy• Depended on slavery• Eli Whitney’s invention of the

_____________ increased the South’s dependency on slavery.

• Cotton plantations were important because cotton became America’s greatest _______________________.

Society• Urbanization: the growth of cities due to

movement from rural to urban areas.• Urban problems included _________ and

poor ______________.• New advances in transportation included

______________, ______________, and ____________. These allowed goods to be shipped to distant markets.

• Immigration provided ____________ for industry and caused a rapid growth in _______________.

Society• Society was dominated by

___________________________.• Slave codes gave slaves no _________

and allowed every aspect of their lives to be ____________.

• Free African Americans were not allowed to ___________ in elections or serve on ___________. Their children could not attend ___________________, and they were discouraged from _________________.

Growing Sectional Differences

In 1820, Senator Henry Clay proposed ___________________.• What this proposal involved: ______________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________• How this revealed sectional tensions:

1. Southerners were not happy because _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ .

2. Northerners were not happy because________________________________________________________________________________________________________ .

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