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The North (Jobs (Weavers + spinners, Farmer, Merchants, Coal-mining, Banks…
The North
Jobs
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Processing, transporting, and selling of goods
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Living Environment
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Five Points- miserable, boring, and dirty
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Poor standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort
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Treatment
Hired young, unmarried women from New England farms because men wanted to be paid more
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Factory owners grew rich with no labor, women worked hard with little reward
Long hours, no minimum wage
Strikes occured , resulting in the first national labor union, the National Trades Union 9NTU), to protect the interests of its members
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Women worked and saved money before they married, working about 73 hrs a week for $3.25, $1.25 being deducted. $2 a week for most women
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Land + Agriculture
Fertile hills of the Old Northwest-> ideal for growing corn, wheat, + other grains
Ohio - Illinois, the growth of large cities were fueled by agriculture
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The mill town of Lowell, MA, founded by Francis Cabot Lowell
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Population
some young workers went to the west, and thousands went to the northeast.
More people came to North, increasing the population density
No more than 30,000 people in the largest cities
Population became a major issue, space began to shrink
States
Divided in two parts
New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Region north and west of the Ohio River, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,, and part of Minnesota