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North Political-Create laws to protect workers? A law that we would create is that there should be no shifts longer than 8 hours without a break for at least one hour.At this time they were expected to work for 12 to 14 hours at a time. Another is that there were lots of children being forced to work and the law that we would create is that you would have to be at least sixteen years old to work. They also would need laws like 1 weeks worth of sick days and they need to create safety precautions so workers dont get hurt.

Social-What can you infer about the work conditions and your opinion of where you would work? There were very bad work conditions in the factories and long work hours and there was a hazard of getting hurt from the machines because there were no saftey precautions. And if you got hurt you did not get payed to sit around and heal and you could get replaced by another person. Also you had no benefits like pensions and dental.This is also about the time they started unions.

Economic-Identify what there main source of income was and the technology they used to create a strong economy? The North's main source of income was from industries like textile mills. They had factories because they did not have vast amounts of good farming lands. even though many people would rather have there own farm they had to work in factories to make money. Some of the technology they used were the lowwell system.


 * South**
 * 1. what can you compare between the north and the south's diff. way of fuctioning.**
 * The north is more about inventing new things to mkae life easier. The south is more about wroking on farms and harvesting things. So far the north is choosing the wiser choice for making money and doing it with ease.**
 * 2.what are the technologies that are used to communicate with the world and the north. Right now they are using wagons and horses to spread the news around. to communicate they have boats to travle accrossed seas to european countries.**
 * 3. what are the diff. jobs and tasks that the people in the community had to do. They had to farm. thats the main source of income. The had to havae a blacksmith. They also had people coming up with diff. inventions and making equiptment. wifes stayed home with the children and cooked, cleaned, and sewed. Then the cotton gin was invented to make picking cotton easier. This made a huge boom in their economy.**