Question 1
The failure of the South to industrialize in the nineteenth century was:
A) due to northern opposition.
B) because of a shortage of labor.
C) a matter of lifestyle.
D) because Southerners chose to depend upon King Cotton.
Question 2
In the first half of the 19th century, the American economy:
A) benefited greatly from the connection between southern slavery and northern industry.
B) suffered because of the South's slave system.
C) depended primarily on northern industrial production.
D) depended primarily on profits from slave-grown cotton.
Question 3
Which of the following is MOST true of Southern industrialization?
A) Urban growth kept pace with the North.
B) Southerners failed to recognize industrial and transportation potential.
C) Southerners chose to concentrate on cotton.
D) Southerners hoped technology could replace slavery.
Question 4
By 1860, America's largest single export was:
A) tobacco.
B) cotton.
C) slaves.
D) rice.
Question 5
The new international economy of cotton after 1794 affected all of the following regions EXCEPT:
A) South America.
B) New England.
C) southern ports.
D) industrializing Britain.