Sectionalism STAAR Review

Which economy and contributing factor best complete this table?

• 1) Large farms;

  2) Slaves used for labor

• 1) Cottage industry;

  2) Mild weather that attracted immigrants

• 1) Mining;

  2) Metal ores and minerals

• 1) Ranching;

  2) Railroads to transport cattle to market

Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

These data could be used to support which conclusion?

• Gulf Coast states had to rely on steamboats to transport goods

• States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations

• Border states had to import needed raw materials

• States in the upper South were heavily industrialized

Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?

• Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations

• The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period

• Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories

• The Lower South lost population as settler migrated west to establish new plantations

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas

• Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas

• The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south

The economies of the new western states were very different from those of the northeastern states in the mid-1800s. One major difference was that western states -

• relied on subsistence farmin

• used natural harbors for shipping

• focused on mining and agriculture

• traded freely with other nations

Which factor encouraged more immigrants to settle in northern states than southern states during the mid-nineteenth century?

• Northern states had lower population densities

• Citizenship requirements in southern states were not as strict

• Southern states had smaller industrial sectors

• Governments in northern states were less corrupt

Which outcome best completes this diagram?

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

Which diagram correctly compares two regions of the United States during the mid-nineteenth century?

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Why did the economies of western territories develop so differently from the economies of the Northeast and South?

• Western territories had limited land and a large immigrant population

• Western territories had natural harbors and many navigable rivers

• Western territories had rocky soil and a large supply of slave labor

• Western territories had inexpensive land and abundant natural resources