Key Info for Friday, Sept 10

Key Terms:
Interchangeable parts
Labor unions
Cotton Gin
Planters

Key info:
Northern transportation booms - canals, roads, rails, steam engine boats and locomotives
Production of goods moves to the factory system in the North
Northern cities grow
Southern economy turns from tobacco to cotton
Southern industry and transportation lag behind the North

Also, be able to contrast the North and South by means of transportation networks, production of goods and growth of towns and cities

We also did a free write with the following prompt:
"How did technology and transportation change the lives of people during the first half of the 1800's?"

Knowledge check for 8/8/10 and 8/9/10

1) The news headline is “OPEC decides to cut oil production by 100,000 barrels of oil a day”
a. What can you expect to happen to the price of gas?
b. Why would OPEC ever do such a thing?
c. What might throw a monkey wrench into OPEC’s plan?

2) How did the Industrial Revolution change America?
a. List 3 ways

3) Define mercantilism.

4) Explain how Southern society became an agricultural society.

5) How did Northern development differ from Southern development

Northern lifestyle pics

Early Philadelphia
Emerging city of New York
Ben Franklin the printer

Colonial South

Key info for Thursday 8-9-10

Key terms:
Planters/Plantations
Gentry
Indentured Servants
Cash Crop - Tobacco
Subsistence Farming
Puritans
Meetinghouse/Selectmen
Artisans

Key info:
The importance of tobacco to Jamestown and to lifestyle in the South
Compare/Contrast commercial agriculture and subsistence farming
Early New England colonial industries - fishing, whaling, lumbering, shipbuilding
Importance of church and town to New England colonists
Artisans in the New England colonial town/city
Be able to compare/contrast New England development with Southern development in the following areas: jobs/occupations, lifestyle, government, labor force

Key Info from Wednesday, 9-8-10

Terms:
Market Economy
Supply and Demand
Revolution
Industrialization
Mercantilism

Basic categories of change during Industrialization:
Subsistence Farming to Mass Production Growing
Single Artisan to Factory system of Production
Slow, unreliable transportation to Ability to move goods quickly
Also know the advantages/disadvantages of mercantilism to both the mother country and the colony.

Reading

Here are the pages and sections that you guys should be reading to prepare you for class.

For Wednesday and Thursday - p.84-87 "The Southern Economy" and "Southern Society"; p. 91-93 "New England's Economy"; p.98 "Mercantilism"

For Friday and Monday - p. 245-253 "A Revolution in Transportation", "A New System of Production", "Rise of Large Cities", "Workers Begin to Organize", "The Southern Economy", "Society in the South".

Creation of Jamestown video

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