Form 5: Economic Differences: Industrial North vs Agricultural South Exercise

Form 5: Economic Differences: Industrial North vs Agricultural South

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Form 5: Economic Differences: Industrial North vs Agricultural South

Examine the contrasting economic systems of the industrial North and the agricultural South. Understand how these structural differences contributed to growing sectional division.

Questions

  1. MultiChoice

    What was the main basis of the Southern economy in the 1850s?

  2. MultiChoice

    What was the dominant economic engine of the Northern states prior to the Civil War?

  3. MultiChoice

    Which cash crop became known as 'King' in the South during the 1850s?

  4. MultiChoice

    How did Eli Whitney's cotton gin impact the institution of slavery?

  5. MultiChoice

    Which section of the nation had significantly more miles of railroad tracks in 1860?

  6. MultiChoice

    Why did Northern industrial factory owners support protective tariffs?

  7. MultiChoice

    Why did Southern planters oppose federal protective tariffs?

  8. MultiChoice

    Where was the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing capacity located in 1860?

  9. MultiChoice

    How did the population growth of the North compare to the South between 1800 and 1860?

  10. MultiChoice

    Why did European immigrants primarily settle in the Northern states rather than the South?

  11. MultiChoice

    What was the main transportation network used by the West and North to trade food and goods?

  12. MultiChoice

    How did economic sectionalism contribute to tension between North and South?