The Mid Atlantic And Southern Regions

The North’s economy was based on textiles, shipping, and skilled trades. Their climate was not suited for the same type of agricultural products that the South produced like cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco. Northern states like New England manufactured and shipped goods like guns, clocks, plows and axes (page 399). One reason for the South’s dependence on slavery is because their economy relied on the existence of slave labor. For example, the cultivation of cotton depended largely on slave labor, with 75% of the crop grown on plantations,

Virginia, in the southern region, was the first area colonized, named for Queen Elizabeth who was supposedly a virgin. It was intended to be a source of wealth for England by providing cash crops such as tobacco and, eventually, a new market for English goods.. The short winters and warm summers were ideal for growing cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, and rice, all of which were labor intensive. Most of the people who immigrated to these southern colonies were poor Englishmen who were part of the growing number of unemployed in their home country. They paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants, hoping to work off their servitude on the plantations and begin a new life in a new land. As economic conditions improved in England however, Virginia, as well as the other southern colonies, began to rely more and more on slave labor. Slaves became a better investment than in indentured servants, and the southern colonies soon transitioned to slave-based, agricultural economies. (Taylor)

In the Chesapeake region they would have longer and warmer growing seasons since they geographically are closer to the equator than New England, which had shorter and colder growing seasons. From the result of the growing season in Chesapeake, therefore they have a better opportunity to grow crops like tobacco to earn profits especially when they grew large farms of it. John Pory once again wrote, “Able to raise enough tobacco to earn 200 pounds… We have to pay all of our expenses.” (Document E2) The living was hard and they had to pay all their expenses which was easier because crops like these were a viable to grow. The New England region was different, casting short and mild growing seasons with harsh winters and had to rely more on fishing and hunting than crops for food and money. Economy was developed around trade and fur. Sandy, rocky soil made it hard for agriculture, but fortunately basic crops like corn were grown within these climates. (Venn Diagram) The lack of favorable rich soil made the cash crops like tobacco hard to be grown in this region which eventually made the fishing, hunting, and trading more appropriate. The source of profit was so important to them since the time was right they had people do this for them. “Slavery began (Picking Tobacco)” (Venn Diagram) They would have these favorable conditions and explode them by having the slaves do all the “dirty work” for

One of these economic differences was how goods were produced. While both the North and South were successful in the production of goods, the North was much more efficient. This was because they used manufacturing industries instead of farms, which were used by the South more. The North depended on the South for farming and the South depended on the North for machinery. For example, in Document 2, Virginian Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams from Massachusetts, a letter stating, “For finer things, we shall depend on your northern manufacturers. Of these companies we have none. We use little machinery.” To clarify, the South had very little machines and companies, therefore, they depended greatly on the North who were very advanced in this technology. Nevertheless, the North also depended greatly on the South, who were almost entirely run on agriculture. The South’s agricultural items were sent to the North to be manufactured. For instance, the South harvested cotton, which was then sent over to the North to be made into textiles. As conflict arose between the North and South, the economy would suffer as they relied so heavily on each other. Likewise, the North and South had different forms of labor. As aforementioned, the North’s economy included a great deal of manufacturing, while the South did not. In the North, for the most part, slavery was abolished. The North relied on free labor, which was the ideology that one could work for payment and that one had the opportunity to raise this wage through hard work. In the South, however, slavery was a key to the economy. At first, the southern slaves had to separate the seeds from cotton fibers by hand, but with Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, cotton could be separated by the machine. The cotton gin revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process. Now, slaves could process more cotton. However, with more

The period between the end of the war of 1812 and 1860 was a time of great change and reform in America. However, these changes differed greatly in the North and South and would ultimately lead to the Civil war. The North saw many people become prosperous due to industrialization. The new technological advances that began in the late 18th century enabled the wealthy elite increase their power and influence by building factories and hiring workers to work raw materials into goods. In the south, however, slave culture and its expansion was the only way the wealthy plantation owners could remain powerful. There also began to develop a regional identity in both the North and South due to the people's differing stance on slavery. Although not every

With groups of families persuading life in New England money was something that was important for survival. (Document 2). It’s clean water, cool temperature, coastal areas and rivers caused New England’s economy relied on fishing and shipbuilding the people were experts in commerce. In, the other hand, Chesapeake long growing seasons, joined with fertile soil, led the economy to be very agriculturally dependent. The land was mostly used for the harvesting of tobacco; leaf- laden ships annually hauled some 40 million pounds a year by the 1700 (The American Pageant). Geographical locations evolved these areas to follow different methods of productivity for their economical system. Fishing did not require a large workforce for New England but for the Chesapeake region and its growing of tobacco more workers were needed and soon slaves drove the southern agricultural economy. Having a stable economy was necessary to be a successful region, but also having political stability was very

In the early 1800’s, the economic conditions of both the North and South of the United States were very different. After the war of 1812, the United States’ economy rapidly grew at an astonishing rate. Both the North and South experienced a period of wealth as there was a time of increased trade, population growth and expansion which stirred economic growth. The economic development of the North and South also led to the rapid growth of cities. The economic conditions of the North and South can be seen as one of the major differences of the two during that time period. Both economies produced different materials due to the difference in locations of the North and South which resulted in the development of two different economies. Overall,

Colonial Virginia and Jamestown are considered to be the origin of English settlement in the North America region. It was in Virginia where colonial laws about race, gender, and race were created facilitating the establishment of slavery society which would later become the United States of America (“U.S History,” n.d). The growth in tobacco production provided finance which made Virginia be an agricultural center. Virginia also witnessed the change from indentured labor to the slavery type of labor system. The issues that were experienced by colonial Virginia residents in the seventeenth century were carried on to the future United States (“U.S History,” n.d).

In the 16th and 17th centuries the southern colonies had one of the most prosperous economies in the world. The southern colonies prosperous economy was based on agriculture, cash crops, and slavery. Out of each colonial group the southern colony had the largest slave population. These slaves tirelessly worked mainly on cotton, tobacco, grains, and vegetables. Slaves allowed the southern colonies to acquire wealth without much hard work.

The decline of slavery in the upper South in the early 19th century can be identified as a profound change which would contribute to the eventual division of the nation. After 1830, the pattern of regional slavery in the South experienced great variations, such that the upper South gradually declined ties with slavery while the lower South distinctively became identified with it. This profound change was brought on by a shift in utilizing free labor rather than slavery to drive economic production in the upper South (Goldfield et. al, p. 285). The climate and geography in states of the upper South overtime proved less

The coastal system “sent thousands of slaves to the sugar plantations…” in places like New Orleans (Edwards, Henretta, & Self 308 355). However, the inland system was less visible and sent slaves to south to farm cotton, which was crucial for the prosperity of the southern economy. Overall, the slave trade system was a profitable, “commercial enterprise that enriched English merchants, (and)… became a great business between 1800 and 1860” (Edwards, Henretta, & Self 308 353).

Before the issue of emancipation, Northern and Southern economies were vastly different, so the need for slaves differed between regions. While the North became more industrial and diversified their economy, specifically after the creation of the Cotton Gin, the South didn’t experience much of a change. Southern plantations were still mainly agriculturally based and rarely even had a rotation of crops. Because of this, the Southern economy was significantly more turbulent than the Northern economy.

In the South there was a lot of agriculture. The culture of the South was revolved around plantation

Europeans need for labor arose in the 1500s and 1600s when they realized that cultivating sugar was labor extensive. Their search for labor led them to African slaves. The West African kingdoms competed with one another to supply slaves to the Europeans in return for European goods which created a beneficial trading system. Slave labor became key in the South especially, allowing few successful farmers to develop large plantations over hundreds of acres. Because of the expansion of slave labor, America’s economy started off with a boom. Farmers, plantation owners, blacksmiths, merchants, and bakers were able to mass produce quickly and start trading with other foreign countries with the help of free labor. In addition, the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was a huge system of trade and migration that brought millions of slaves to the New World and Europe, served as a pillar in the economy of one of the earliest forms of globalization. (Shultz 76) Without the slaves, the South especially would not have grown and been as prosperous as they were. “One crop, slave-grown cotton, provided over

Because of the industrial revolution, different types of economies between the North and the South formed. The Northern economy was based on manufacturing, which needed a large amount of labor workers instead of slaves; in contrast, the southerners highly depended on cotton and tobacco crops to gain profits. “Slavery led the South down a very different path of economic development than the North’s, limiting the growth of industry, discouraging immigrants from entering the region, and inhibiting technological progress.”(Foner 420). The northerners argued that slavery interfered with the economic progress, but the southerners had an opposite opinion about slavery. “They hold out the idea that slavery is the very bulwark of our liberties, and the