WorksheetsAntebellum Era
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 5mins
In the North, what were farmers mainly producing
Cash Crops
Food Crops
Corn
Indigo
The Northern Economy thrived due to...
Growing Industry
Subsistence farming
foreign help
the growth of abolition
Which region had the majority of the wealth in the US during the Antebellum Period?
North
South
West
What were the first factory laborers in the North?
Ladies of Liberty
Irish Immigrants
Mill Girls
German Immigrants
Who were generally more willing to work for lower wages in the North than the women?
Children
Freedmen
Immigrants
Slaves
Linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Erie Channel
Erie Canal
Hudson River
The South's society was primarily
Industrial
Frontier
Agricultural
The West's society was primarily
Industrial
Frontier
Agricultural
Most farmers in the South
Owned plantations
Owned many slaves
Owned small amounts of land
Grew only cash crops
The primary interest of Southern plantation owners was
cash crops
food crops
tobacco
indigo
What was the major cash crop produced during this time
indigo
cotton
tobacco
sugar
What invention sped up the production of cotton?
cotton spinner
"the spinning jenny"
cotton gin
cotton threader
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Manning
JP Morgan
Thomas Edison
Eli Whitney
True of False: Most people in the South owned slaves
True
False
What was the slave trade route from Africa to the Americas known as:
The Middle Passage
The Columbian Exchange
The Atlantic Trade
The Atlantic Passage
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walt Whitman
Under the Compromise of 1850, which state was admitted to the Union as a free state?
Utah
California
Texas
New Mexico
Under the Compromise of 1850, which territories would decided with popular sovereignty if slavery was acceptable?
California and Texas
Utah and New Mexico
California and Utah
Texas and New Mexico
Who was this man?
John C. Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Henry Clay
What was John Brown known for?
Being violently anti-slavery
Being violently pro-slavery
Peacefully protesting against slavery
Peacefully advocating for slavery
What political party was known to be xenophobic and nativist?
Republican Party
American Party
Democratic Party
Native Party
What was the result of the Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Case?
Scott wasn't free due to being in a free area, therefore couldn't sue
Scott was free in a free area, having the right to sue
The Missouri Compromise was constitutional
Slavery was illegal
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Zachary Taylor
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
