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**Theme:** Industrialization **Free Response Question**: In what ways and to what extent was the industrial development from 1800 to 1860 a factor in the relationship between the northern and the southern states? Introductory Paragraph **Setting: The** Industrial Development from 1800 to 1860 brought prosperity to the American Economy. **Basis for Analysis**: The relationships between two regions are economic, political, and social relationship. **Partitions**: Although the Industrial development of the time is sought to have brought economic change to the two regions, it also influenced the political and social aspects of the two regions. **Thesis: Although the Industrial Movement is credited with bringing economic prosperity to the United States, it made contributions to the social, economic, and political friction between the northern states and the southern states to a great extent.**

**Partition 1:** Economics The development set the North into manufacturing machine, while it turned the south into an agricultural powerhouse.

Tariffs such as the Tariff of Abominations protected northern industries while it upset southern farmers.

Textiles developing in the north demanded southern cotton, which created a divided economy.

While immigrants provided labor for the economy in the north, the south was still dependent on slave labor, making them weaker in the sense of economic growth.

**Partition 2:** Social Aspects The different sources of labor of the industrial movement created two different social hierarchies for the regions.

The new immigration to the north abolishes the need for cheap labor from slaves in the south.

The push westward to the rustbelt represented the manufacturing, while the push to the deep south represented cotton picking.

** Partition 3: ** Politics Embargo of 1807

Missouri Compromise

New Modes of Transportation (National Roads)

General Information: The societies of the north and south were based upon their respective economic systems. These economies were based on the industrial movement. The friction would build and explode in the Civil War. Political needs reflected economic needs. Social reforms were based in the north on slavery.