North v. South

Economy based on manufacturing

• North

• South

Economy based on King Cotton

• North

• South

30,000 miles of railroad track was laid by 1850

• North

• South

Had more canals

• North

• South

Where did the American Industrial Revolution begin?

• Middle colonies

• New England

• The South

• On the frontier

Which of the following was NOT a reason that manufacturing grew in the United States between 1800 and 1840?

• The British blockade during the War of 1812 did not allow Americans to access European manufactured goods, forcing them to make their own.

• Transportation improvements created more customers for products in distant regions of the nation.

• The south wanted to diversify their economy and started establishing factories.

• Tariffs made it cheaper for Americans to buy American made goods.

DOK 1: What agricultural invention, designed to increase production, had the effect of increasing the number of slaves needed for labor in the Deep South?

• the wheat reaper

• the cotton gin

• the steel plow

• the rice mill

• Cotton production was nearly three times higher in 1860 than in 1840.

• Cotton production was greater in the 1810s than in the 1840s.

• Cotton production remained steady during the 1820s and 1830s.

• The amount of cotton production dropped in the 1820s.

• Slavery increased near the Great Lakes.

• Slavery spread mainly to areas on the Atlantic Coast.

• Slavery spread to the South and West.

• Slavery declined in the North.

Which of the following was NOT true about the cotton gin?

• Its development was encouraged by high cotton prices.

• It encouraged Southerners to settle on Native American land.

• It reduced the need for slave labor on Southern plantations

• it allowed Southerners to grow more cotton.