Economy 1
Economy of the South differed from that of the North of the U.S. during this period.
What is the South highly depended on slavery for plantation agriculture while the North was shifting towards manufacturing?
The West relied on slaves to raise crops for economy.
What is false?
Mostly small farms and labor was provided by family members.
Who is the North?
Name for someone who demands the immediate end to slavery.
Who is an Abolitionist?
One major issue that divided the North and the South during Antebellum America.
What is slavery?
Much of the South's economic growth during the Antebellum era can be attributed to __________.
What is the rise of the plantation system and the use of slave labor?
The South wanted cheap land and good transportation.
What is false?
Contained large farms were the purpose was to make a profit.
Who is the South?
First factory workers during this time period .
Who are the Mill girls?
Buildings housing machinery and workplaces.
What are factories?
Positive and negative ways slavery affected the economy and social structure of the South? Name 3 positive and 3 negative.
What is wealth for planters, developed export-oriented economy, spurred growth in connected industries.
What is stunted industrial development, lack of technological innovations, and created a rigid and unequal social hierarchy.
Southerner slave owners were more inclined to continuing slavery.
What is True?
Contained 75 percent of the Nation's wealth.
Who is the North?
The U.S. ban on importing more slaves effect on Southern Plantation owners.
What is drove up slave prices?
Majority of slaves worked this type of job.
What is field labor?
Changes that created divisions in the United States.
What is economic?
Main cash crops grown in the South during Antebellum America.
What is cotton?
Grew the Nation's supply of cotton.
Who is the South?
Period from the late 18th century until the start of the American Civil War in 1861
What is the Antebellum Period?
This reality of the slave economy destroyed slave families.
What is the threat of sale?
North economy was based in _________ and ________.
What is manufacturing and trade?
White southerners who owned land but not slaves.
Who are Yeoman farmers?
Railroads and factories were present.
Who is the North and the South?
Differences between the North and South grew so differently, the Americans tragically turned to this in order to solve its problems.
What is the Civil War?
Three groups that joined the workforce in the North.
Who are women, children, and immigrants?