America the Story Us - Division

Which of the following turned the North into an economic powerhouse?

• Electricity

• Erie Canal

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Mississippi River

What are two economic effects of the Erie Canal?

• Trade and Transportation

• Slavery and Manufacturing

• Boom and Bust

• Technology and Temperance

which state became a boom town?

• Philadelphia

• Washington D.C.

• New York

• Richmond

The southern economy was based primarily upon which of the following

• Slave trade

• Cotton

• Slave labor

• Tobacco

How are the Northern and Southern economies tied together?

• The north provides raw materials to the south where they are manufactured into finished products

• The northern and southern economies are not actually tied together

• The north ships finished goods that were manufactured in the south across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe

• The north manufactures raw materials it receives from the south into finished products

The cotton gin increased the demand for which of the following?

• Cotton

• Gin

• Slaves

• Plantations

Both the North and South

• agree slavery is morally wrong

• profit from slavery

• profit from industrialization

• benefit from women working

The textile mills offer a new opportunity for

• unskilled males

• free African Americans

• slaves

• women

Why is whaling an opportunity for African Americans?

• Because they can use their previous experience fishing in Africa

• Because they have the same opportunity as white people there is no discrimination

• Because whaling captains would buy slaves from the south and bring them to the north

• Because whaling was less difficult and dangerous than working on the plantations

In 1841, New Orleans becomes the heart of the

• slave trade

• whaling industry

• cotton industry

• country for politics