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How Did Industrialization Rise In The South

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Some historians argue that regional differences weren't the most significant part of the antebellum era (1800-1848). However, the North had a huge industrialization rise, the South had a huge demand for slaves with the invention of the cotton gin and there was continued expansion into the West and the settlers brought their cultures. Therefore, regional differences were extremely significant to the antebellum era as they caused growing sectionalism and tensions (especially over slavery) leading to the Civil War. The industrialization rise in the North was largely caused by Samuel Slater, known as the “father of the Factory System”. Slater opened the first fully mechanized mill in Rhode Island, this caused the spread of independent mill towns into Massachusetts. There was also the Lowell System in the 1820’s which brought in specially trained employees (mostly young women) and this brought a rise to the concept of wage labor. IN the North there was also a huge population shift from farms to cities because of job openings in cities. There was a large increase in abolition and women’s rights movements, although abolitionists trumped woman’s rights advocates. Slavery was nearly nonexistent after the Second …show more content…

The cotton gin separated the cotton from the seed, which did the work that people used to do by hand. This invention did the work 100 times faster which means more slaves were needed. In the South there were very few large towns and cities, but a lot of agriculture. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 allowed even more land for plantation owners. THere were more job opportunities in the South for blacks because free African Americans could find jobs as artisans. The South didn’t attract as many immigrants as the North because there were not as many jobs. At this time in the South there were low tariffs and slavery was known as a “positive

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