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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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