Ch. 19.7 Lesson Review

Ch. 19.7 Lesson Review

"No money for transportation..we have it for free down here." -- Southern States

South's Transportation

• As a result of the southern state's focus on slavery based economy.....

  • they had only 26% of the countries railroads (1849)

​Why might it be 'bad' for the south to have few railroad lines?

South's Transportation

• Southern states did not focus on transportation improvements and development

Poll

Do you think the south did not want to improve their transportation system because of their focus on cotton and slavery?

Multiple Choice

Southern states did not focus on transportation improvements because...

• they focused on their factories too much

• they only wanted railroads

• they focused on their slave based economy

Water Travel *thumbs up*

• Water travel easiest way to transport items

  • Used many of the slow and wide rivers in the south

  • Steamboats made travelling easier

• Cities built on the mouth of rivers...plantations and towns built next to rivers......discussion question next slide

​Alabama River

​Why would southern cities and plantations be built next to rivers, or at the end (mouth) of rivers?

Multiple Choice

True or False --

"Cities and plantations were built next to roads to make it easier to ship cotton to the coast."

• True

• False

• The South did not have cotton.