WorksheetsCh. 14.3 The Southern Cotton Kingdom
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following statements can be made from the information provided in the map?
a)
Alabama produced more cotton in 1860 than Mississippi and Arkansas combined.
b)
Cotton production increased rapidly in the Southern states in 1820–1860.
c)
Mississippi and Alabama had a close rivalry in cotton production.
d)
Tobacco was a more important crop than cotton in Virginia.
2.
In 1850 Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas were part of which region?
a)
Deep South
b)
Dixieland
c)
Southeast
d)
Southern Confederacy
3.
What was one of the consequences of the cotton gin?
a)
Deep South farmers grew more wheat.
b)
Domestic slave trade increased.
c)
Plantations hired more tenant farmers.
d)
Southern factories quickly developed.
4.
Based on the graph, which of the following statements is correct?
a)
In 1840 there were more miles of railroad track in the South than in the North.
b)
In 1850 the South more than tripled the miles of tracks it had in 1840.
c)
In 1860 the amount of tracks in both the North and the South had not increased.
d)
In all three decades, the North had more miles of tracks than the South.
5.
What did the thriving economy of the South depend on?
a)
canals
b)
railroads
c)
slavery
d)
tobacco
6.
In general, what did farmers and factory owners in the South use in order to transport their goods?
a)
canals
b)
horse-drawn carts
c)
natural waterways
d)
railroads
7.
Which part of the world purchased large quantities of cotton from the South?
a)
Asia
b)
Canada
c)
Europe
d)
Mexico
8.
What was the main crop of the Deep South?
a)
cotton
b)
rice
c)
sugarcane
d)
tobacco
9.
Which of the following kept the price of cotton high in the years before 1860?
a)
cotton gin
b)
demand in Europe
c)
large plantations
d)
slavery
10.
One reason for the slow development of industry in the South was that ____.
a)
planters wanted to sell their land for high prices
b)
the market for manufactured goods was growing
c)
agriculture was creating profits
d)
southern rail lines were not linked together
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