SECTIONALISM INFO
Check out the links below for more information...it might spark some ideas for additional credit pieces in your history packets. Be sure to look at the AC suggestions/questions for this unit.
INDUSTRY IN THE NORTH
- Information and activities related to the girls who worked at the Lowell Mills
- Lowell Mill Girl Picture Gallery at CUNY Staten Island
- Biography of Cyrus McCormick
- Info on the reaper at the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center
- Info on Elias Howe at the University of Rochester
- Elias Howe at the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Isaac Singer - the other sewing machine guy
- Robert Fulton biography at the Virtual History Museum
- Robert Fulton info at the University of Virginia
- Inland Navigation: Connecting the New Republic site on American transportation at UV
- Robert Fulton and Steamboats at the Hudson River Maritime Museum
INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
- The American Civil War Center at the site of the Tredegar Iron Works
- General info sites on Tredegar
- Info on Joseph Reed Gordon and Tredegar
- Information on plantation agriculture in the South
- The Burton Cotton Gin & Museum houses the oldest operating cotton gin in the U.S.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE NORTH
- A brief history and several links to info on the Chesapeake Bay
- Chesapeake Bay - Our History and Our Future
- General info on the history of the Appalachians
- Slideshow on Appalachian history
- Great Lakes Region informational site
- Info on preserving the Great Lakes at the Nature Conservancy site
AGRICULTURE OF THE SOUTH
- '1860 speech by Senator Wigfall "Cotton is King"
- General info on the impact of cotton
- Education info at the National Cotton Council of America
- Cotton's Journey - The Story of Cotton
- The Cotton Boom information
- Cotton info from PBS's Africans in America program
- Various information sites on the indigo plant
- Various information sites on tobacco
- Tobacco info at the Smithsonian
- By the way, tobacco kills
THE NATIONAL ROAD
- Information on the National Road at wikipedia
- Historic National Road page at the National Scenic Byways Program
- The Quest for a National Road at the U.S. Department of Transportation
SUMNER/BROOKS
- A comic strip depiction of the beating of Senator Sumner by Represenative Brooks