Slavery and Causes of the Civil War

The main cash crop in Texas was ________

Why were most enslaved people located in the Coastal Plains?

• The Coastal Plains recieved the least precipitation so cotton would not drown there.

• Most enslaved people were located in the North Central Plains.

• The Coastal Plains was the easiest region to farm in due to high precipitation.

• Most enslaved people wanted to live near waterways.

During the Civil War, Texas joined the

• Union States

• Confederate States

Southern states were primarily a ________ economy.

• agricultural

• industrial

• immigrant

• technological

_______ means to separate or leave

___________ was a person who wanted to get rid of slavery

Who was elected president that led the Southern states to secede.

• John F. Kennedy

• George W. Bush

• Abraham Lincoln

• Woodrow Wilson

_______ were the states that remained loyal to the United States

• Confederacy

• Union

The Texas Secession Convention ordered all state officials to take an oath of allegiance to:

• President Lincoln
• The Union Army
• The Confederacy

Upon which institution did the South's economy rely on?

• slavery
• the cotton gin
• factories