The Worlds of North and South

Front

The geography of the South supported the growing of cash crops in all of these ways except:

• it had wide, fertile coastal plains
• it had access to seaports to export goods
• it had fast-moving rivers as a source of power
• it had plentiful rainfall and long growing seasons

Back

it had fast-moving rivers as a source of power

Front

The economy in the South was based on which of these? mining, banking, agriculture, shipbuilding

Back

agriculture

Front

How did the invention of the cotton gin impact the South?

Back

Cotton became the South's most important crop.

Front

Which of these best describes the Industrial Revolution?

Back

a shift from handmade products to machine-made products

Front

Why did the South oppose laws to provide federal money for internal improvements, such as roads and canals?

Back

They thought these improvements would benefit only Northern states.

Front

How were goods primarily transported in the South?

Back

by river

Front

By 1850, which was the most efficient way to move goods in the North?

Back

by railroad

Front

Why did Southerners invest little money in mills and factories?

Back

They put their money in land and slaves.

Front

Why were textile mills at first built near rivers?

Back

Rivers provided power to operate the mills.

Front

Which inventions brought industrialization to Northern agriculture?

Back

Mechanical reaper and the steel-tipped plow