North vs South

My Infograpic

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH AND THEIR EFFECT ON SUCCESS IN THE CIVIL WAR | Create infographics

I created an infographic to display the information I learned throughout this lesson. An infographic is a visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data. To create my infographic I used the tool Infogram. The point of this infographic is to answer the essential question. The essential question is: how did the differences between the North and the South affect each region’s strategy and success in the Civil War. Within in my infographic, I mentioned the advantages of the North and the advantages of the South and how they affected the outcome of the Civil War. First, I used a doughnut graph to represent the resources percentages in 1861. I made 5 different graphs one representing industrial workers, one representing the Value of Manufactured Goods, one representing Railroad Mileage, one representing Corn, and one representing Cotton. The North dominated and had advantages in all of these aspects except the Cotton one. Cotton was how the South made a lot of their money. Following my graphs, I represented the total population in the North and the South using a pictorial. This just shows that 73% of the total population lived in the North and 27% lived in the South. Due to the high population percentage in the North, the Union had enough men to go fight in the war and enough to stay back and work on farms and in factories. After that I used another pictorial to display the slave population. This showed that 88% of slaves were located in the South and 12% were located in the North. The high slave population in the South was what fueled the economy. The 2 pictorials were followed by the North Advantages and the South Advantages. At the bottom of my infographic, I created a word cloud for both the North and the South. A word cloud is an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency or importance. I used the words that were the most important and the most relevant for the North and the South.