Civil War and Industrialization

What unique challenge did Atlanta, Georgia face after the Civil War?

• restoring buildings that were burned

• selling supplies not used in the war

• relocating people to farmland

• spread of disease

What was the economy of the South built on?

• banking

• shipping

• farming

• factories

What is the effect of economic specialization?

• It has no effect on the standard of living.

• It causes an improvement in the standard of living.

• It causes a decline in the standard of living.

• It causes an improvement in one's ability to take care of themselves.

What is one impact the cotton gin had on the United States?

• It led to an increase in slavery.

• It helped railroads to grow as a form of transportation.

• It led to a decline in slavery.

• It made processing cotton more difficult.

What impact did the telegraph have on the United States?

• It led to the building of railroads.

• It helped to process cotton.

• It helped to transport goods and people.

• It helped with long-distance communication.

Steamboats were created after the Revolutionary War. What were steamboats?

• Cables that connected people so that they could communicate better.

• Trains that connected cities along railroads with steam-powered engines.

• Steam-powered boats that brought people up and down rivers.

• Steam-powered boats that brought people across the Atlantic Ocean.

What was the purpose of the cotton gin?

• Separate cotton seeds from their fibers easily.

• Pick cotton more quickly.

• Spin cotton into yarn to make fabric.

• Pull cotton from the bush.

Which of the following descriptions in the BEST example of specialization?

• A family running a small farm

• A factory that produces only shoes

• A large Southern Plantation

• A Quaker community in Pennsylvania

What was the main focus of the economy in the North in the 1860s?

• banking

• farming

• factories

• transportation

What did Northerners and Southerners have in common after the Civil War?

• Major cities in the North and South were destroyed.

• Farms were destroyed in both the North and the South.

• Northerners and Southerners lost people they loved during the war.

• Northerners and Southerners agreed on the issue of slavery.