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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.
The North and South Take Different Paths
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The North
The South
Economy
• Depended on industry
• Some important inventions of Industrial
Revolution:
1. spinning jenny
2.
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 _____________________________________
___________________________________________________________________ .
Refer to this page to answer the Unit 4 Focus Question on page 154.
Unit 4
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