Sectionalism OBJ1

What was so different in the Western territories compared to that of the Northeast and South?

• The West had limited land and resources

• The West had many rivers

• The West had cheap land and abundant natural resources

• The West had rocky soil and a lot of slave labor

The South was dominated by what?

• Large landowners

• Professional people

• Industries

• Small farmers

What region would the SMALL farms be established in?

• The Northeast

• The Midwest

• The South

What effect did the textile mills in the North and the invention of the cotton gin have on the South?

• The need for slaves decreased as machines took over

• The number of slaves working in the South increases as demand for cotton increases

• Southern plantation owners built their own textile mills

• Southern plantation owners replaced slaves with more efficient free labor

What was the main goal of the plantation owners?

• build larger plantations

• earn a profit

• enslave people

• produce less cotton

True/False: The Cotton Gin expanded slavery because cotton production became more profitable.

• True

• False

The Southern slaveholders relied on what as a source of labor?

• textile mills

• cotton gin

• slavery

• plantations

How did the South view the U.S. tariff policy?

• helpful as it brought more money to the raw materials

• as a burden because the South was not receiving money from those tariffs on raw materials

Which of the following is paired correctly?

• The South: mining

• The North: Agriculture

• The South: Industries

• The West: mining

What group wanted to end slavery?

• Transcendentalists

• Abolitionists

• Slaveholders

• Plantation Owners