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- African Americans faced discrimination
- mechanical reaper made prarie  settlement easier for farmers
- this also helped grow crops faster
farm labors were replaced with machines
- slavery ended and African Americans were free
- many Irish and Germans immigrated and natives worried about the growth of foreign population

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- it was illegal to import African American slaved to the united states
African customs survived mostly on the lives of the generations

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- Steam boats. The first steamboat to ever sail was the Clermont on the Hudson River.
-Clipper ships. Clipper ships were the world´s fastest ships until steamships came along.
-Steamships were faster and could carry more cargo. It was created by Great Britain.
-Railroads. While ships were not able to sail, people could still travel by railroad.

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-Steam boat. The North wasnt the only one to use the steamboat to travel. The South used it too.
-Stage. Stage was simply a coach that could carry people using horses to pull them to their destination.
-Underground railroad. Harriet Tubman had freed more than 300 slaves.

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- they had small cities
- Had many fires because of wodden housing and fire fighter sho fought other fire fighters for glory and the money
- because of growing cities, they had filthy streets, no sewage systems, and no clean drinking water

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- Their "cotton kingdom" was dominated with luxuary
- most white children went to the finest schools
- They raised hogs and chickens in the "cotton Kingdom"
- Alabama and Mississippi depended on cotton

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-1 billion invested in businesses by 1860.
- farm labors were replaced with machines
-Insurance companies paid firefighters for saving an insured building

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-Cotton became the greatest source of wealth for the U.S

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-New York had a population of slightly more than 33,000 in 1790.
-Pittsburgh had about 23,000 people in 1840.
-Louisville had more than 43,000 people by 1850.
-population increased by German and Irish immigrants

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-In 1790, there were about 698,000 enslaved African Americans.
-1860: nearly 4 million slaves
-Population increased by slaves

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- Samuel F.B Morse invented the telegraph
- Cyrus created the mechanical reaper
- Robert Fulton used a steam engine
- Elias Howe created a machine that sews seams in fabric

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- Eli Whitney invented the revolutionary cotton gin
- Henry Blair invented the seed planting device that  reduced the time it took for a farmer to sowing a crop

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-Economy for both North and South was dealt with cotton. North made money off clothes that were made from cotton, South made money off selling cotton.

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-Both North and South traveled by steam boat
- they both had convenient ways of traveling or going long and short distances

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- Both sides were trying to grow and improve their cities
- They both had down sides to their cities and many issues

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-Both South and North population increased greatly.
-Both North and South had African Americans in their area.

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- They both had very revolutionary and life changing machines such as the cotton gin in the south and the steam engine in the north

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- African Americans still had a hard time with discrimination
- they both used machines as a way of life and labor