Life in the North
By: Inna Hwang
North
- Industrial factories
- Many European immigrants
- Women and children could work in factories
- Dream to save money and move West
- Ate, clothed, and had a home (Better off than most of Europe and South)
Women
- As guardians of “domestic virtues”
- Value clean house, entertain well
- "Cult of Domesticity"
- Divorce- NO CUSTODY OF CHILDREN
- Women thought superior
- Had about 5-7 kids
- Could work at textile factories
Old Northwest
- More industry than South
- Produced- Farm machinery, flour, meat whiskey, leather/woolen goods
- Farming land was rich, fertile
-average farm size – 200 acres – owner worked land
- corn, wheat, cattle, sheep, hogs
Northeastern
- competition from Northwest (richer soil)
-had raised wheat, corn, cattle, sheep, hogs, grapes
- Growth of industrialism