WorksheetsEGMS Unit 3 Topic 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
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?
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
What technological innovation played a role in New Orleans’s growth during this time period?
Cotton gin
Ladders
Guns
Cannons
Steamboats
When did the first steamboat arrive in New Orleans?
1851
1842
1837
1812
1807
What issue caused conflict between Northern and Southern states?
States Rights
Cotton
Lincoln
Slavery
Union
