Sectionalism and the Civil War

Turn to page 234 in the workbook: What heightened existing regional differences?

• industrialization

• plantations

The three main regions were known at the time as what?

• regions

• colonies

• sections

Which was the first of the areas to industrialize?

• the North

• the South

• the West

The North became a center for what?

• manufacturing

• shipping

• small farms

Turn to page 237: At the time of the Constitutional Convention, it appeared that what in the United States would gradually die out?

• manufacturing

• slavery

The inventor Eli Whitney developed what?

• the steel plow

• the mechanical reaper

• the cotton gin

One machine could do the work of how many workers separating the seeds by hand?

• 20

• 30

• 40

• 50

As a result of the cotton gin, cotton cultivation became more profitable. Plantation owners began using more who?

• slaves

• indentured servants

Over the next forty years, the plantation system and cultivation of what spread throughout the South?

• Rich Rice

• Top Tobacco

• Indy Indigo

• King Cotton

Turn to page 244: The issue of slavery became closely tied to what?

• a strong national government

• states' rights