EGMS LA History Review

How did the Cotton Gin transform the Southern United States?

• Increased cotton production

• Increased need for slavery

• Increased cotton production and the need for slavery

• Decreased cotton production

• Decreased need for slavery

What is the lasting legacy of the plantation system on Louisiana?

• Agricultural economy

• Increased slavery

• Decreased slavery

• Agricultural economy and increased slavery

• Agricultural economy and decreased slavery

What is the cultural legacy of the Antebellum Period on Louisiana?

• Increased tensions between people

• Increased cotton production

• Increased both tensions and cotton production

• Increased cotton production and decreased tensions

• Decreased tensions

What is the economic legacy of the Antebellum Period on Louisiana?

• Louisiana had slavery

• New Orleans was a center for trade

• Louisiana was an agricultural state

• Louisiana produced cotton

• New Orleans was on the Mississippi River

Why would the Founding Fathers not have foreseen the Civil War?

• The Founding Fathers thought the US would stay united

• The Founding Fathers believed that slavery would go away on its own

• The Founding Fathers believed the British were the only problem

• The Founding Fathers thought the North would embrace slavery

• The Founding Fathers did foresee the Civil War if precautions were not taken

How did Eli Whitney’s cotton gin change the legacy of the South during the Antebellum Period?

• decreased the need for slaves

• decreased cotton production

• increased the need for slaves

• increased sugar production

• none of the above

How did the Cotton Gin transform the Southern United States?

• increased the economy

• increased farmland

• decreased slavery

• decreased cotton production

• all of the above

New Orleans destined to be the center of the slave trade in the Southern United States?

• True

• False

What prompted the spread of slavery in the Lower South?

• introduction of sugarcane

• introduction of tobacco

• increase in production of sugarcane

• increase in production of cotton

• decrease in tobacco

How did slave owners improve their chances of having their slaves sold? Choose the 2 best answers.

• feeding them better before the auction

• taking care of them

• making sure they didn't do hard labor

• dressing them well for the auction

• sharing how strong a worker they were