Three+countries+in+one

=South:=
 * Had slavery
 * very mild in winter and hot in summer so very good farmland and agriculture
 * they widely grew cotton, rice, tobacco
 * had plantations, built to show owners wealth. huge houses and farms
 * had indentured servents, people who lived on the plantation and worked for ten years then went off to make their own living
 * very poor treatment for slaves
 * Comprimise of 1820, drew a imaginary line accross the country and states below it were slave states, above it: free states
 * North has population but south can get more states to control the senate.
 * Nullification crisis: tarrif placed on imported goods, things cost less in north but more in south
 * South Carolina threatened to leave the union and eventually did

=North:=
 * Eli Whitney Jr.
 * people had a problem with the large cotton because the seeds were sticky and wouldn't come off easily
 * Eli Whitney Jr. created a machine called a Cotton Gin (cotton engine)
 * solved the problem of sticky seeds by using a paddle to pick them up and then push the cotton through.
 * North didn't want to continue buying expensive clothes from britian when they could make their own from cheap cotton in the south
 * no one knew how to make clothes because England had kept it a secret.
 * a man brought the secret over to America and the north began to manufacture their own thread and clothes
 * Capitalism
 * 16th century in Europe
 * use money to pay for things instead of trading
 * money is easy because you can buy and sell things for money instead of trading something of equal value
 * Government doesn't control business' so people can make money and people don't have to pay for everyone

=West:=
 * a common situation: A man buys land from indians then dies, his children split it up amongst themselves. Another man buys the same land from the US government and has a deed, comes to collect his land and people are on it and both parties claim the property, goverment says man with the deed owns the land because he bought it from the government.
 * AMERICAN SYSTEM: Henry Clay wants higher tarrifs on goods sold into the country
 * people in America can sell things for more money then stuff from other countries
 * war in 1812, fought against England
 * America buys Louisiana from France, that doubles the size of the country
 * England wants to take America back, they fight America wins again
 * Foreign countries don't want the US to get bigger
 * Mexico just got its independence from Spain
 * Texas is controlled by Mexico, and American people are invited to live in Texas and set up plantations
 * eventually Mexico decides to get rid of all of their states and make 1 big country
 * Texas refuses and begins fighting
 * The Allamo, Texans lost
 * but won the final battle between Mexican army and Texan army
 * Texas became its own country after winning its independence
 * joined the US.
 * the United States gets in a war with Mexico
 * America wins and signs a treaty with Mexico and bought the rest of the North America
 * people start moving to California,
 * people start finding gold and a huge gold rush starts
 * unions start for labor and trades