Practice Test: North and South

During the 1800s, the jagged New England coast was a great place for

• hunting, gold mining, and smelting.
• shipbuilding, commerce, and fishing.
• gardening, harvesting, and farming.
• weaving, quilting, and woodcutting.

The Central Plains provided the best

• agricultural soil in the world.
• woods for timber in the nation.
• forests for hunting in the state.
• rivers for fishing in the North.

The South was a great place for growing certain crops that could not grow in the North because its climate had

• long, cold winters and short, rainy summers.
• warm, sunny winters and stormy summers.
• mild winters and long, hot, humid summers.
• very harsh winters and comfortable summers.

The Southern coast was ideal for growing sugarcane and rice because of its

• rivers and mountains.
• forests and flat plains.
• woodlands and hills.
• swamps and marshes.

Which of the following is true of Southerners during the 1800s?

• Most Southerners were miners.
• Most Southerners were hunters.
• Most Southerners were agrarians.
• Most Southerners were smelters.

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It made slavery more important to the South.
•  It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.
  

What was an achievement of Francis Cabot Lowell?

• He established a cotton plantation that did not use slaves.
• He invented a large number of popular agricultural tools.
• He started a group dedicated to ending slavery and racism.
• He helped build one of the first American textile factories.

What was the result of the new inventions that emerged in the North during the 1800s?

• These innovations made goods more plentiful and cheaper.
• Work shifted from skilled craftspeople to less-skilled workers.
• Factory workers often earned a lot less than skilled laborers.
  
• all of these answers

The Industrial Revolution influenced farming in the North by

• eliminating the use of slave labor to help with farming.
• allowing settlers to farm in places they could not before.
•  increasing the rate agricultural goods could be produced.
• decreasing the desire of Southerners to move to the North.

In 1806, to connect the East with the western states, Congress funded the building of the

• Hudson Harbor.
• National Road.
• Virginian Canal.
• Central Railroad.