Grade 8 Standards Guide 19
Chapter 19 Standards Guide
Terms
• Eli Whitney
• cotton gin
• deforestation
• agrarians
• plantation
• Industrial Revolution
• industrialist
• immigration
Essential Question
- Where is the best place to draw a boundary between the North and the South?
- What are the key differences in the geography and climate of the North and the South?
- What features of the physical geography of the Northeast made this region well-suited to industrial and technological development?
- How did industry and technology influence life and affect the environment of the Northeast?
- What were the physical obstacles, political issues, and economic factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads in the Northeast?
- Why did a wave of immigrants come from northern Europe to America from 1845 to 1860? How did they contribute to the growth and changing characteristics of cities?
- What different paths did Americans in the Northeast take in the period from 1800 to 1850, and what challenges did they face?
- What were conditions like for free African Americans in the North, and how did they respond?
- What factors caused many Southern states to develop a farming economy based on cotton?
- What explains the birth and growth of slavery in the South?
- How did slavery affect the South’s economy and society?
- What were some of the characteristics of white Southern society, and how were these characteristics influenced by the physical geography of the region?
- What features of the geography of the North and the South caused one region to produce so many agrarians and the other so many industrialists?
- What different paths did Americans in the South take in the period from 1800 to 1850, and what challenges did they face?
