Cause and effect
A decrease in product prices was a result of an increase in what?
manufacturing and factories
These two states were created by the Missouri Compromise
Missouri and Maine
1) Steel plow
2) Mechanical reaper
3) Threshing machine
4) Irrigation
5) Cotton gin
Which group of people benefited the most from the innovations listed above?
Farmers
Which section of the US would most likely cheer about the Dred Scott decision?
South
Cotton farming in the south meant that the south was more ___________ based?
agricultural
What effect did the cotton gin have?
Increased slavery
This man created the Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
This person invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Although the North was more opposed to slavery, what product did the North still depend on from the South?
Cotton production
Which region of the US had the most railroads and canals?
Northeast
New immigrants coming to the United States mostly worked in what kind of job that led to more industrialization?
Factories
Henry Clay's nickname
The Great Compromiser
More canals and railroads would lead to what?
Which court case determined that slaves were property and therefore could not sue for their freedom.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The North having more textile factories meant they were more....?
Industrialized
What factor led many farmers, families, and young women to move to cities during the nineteenth century?
More availability of factory jobs
Bleeding Kansas occurred because....?
Interchangeable parts led to the creation of what kind of factory line?
Assembly line.
Which U.S. physical characteristics led to sectionalism and then, eventually, to the Civil War?
Plantation farming, slavery, due to good climate and soil.
Why would tariffs be supported by the North?
It increased the need for American goods
New and innovative ways to mass produce products was a result of what economic system?
Free enterprise system
True or false, slaves could own land?
False
This industry tycoon popularized the assembly line in the early 1900s?
Henry Ford
Most free blacks were located where before the Civil War?
the North
Why would most Southern slave holders opposed aboliton?
Because the South depended on slavery for their economy