Exam 12: The Sections Go Their Own Ways

Before the Civil War, the railroad that benefited most from federal support for line construction was the ________ Railroad.

The city most dramatically affected by the railroad growth of the 1850s was Chicago.

On the eve of the Civil War, the South produced less than ________ of the total manufactured goods in the United States.

Public aid for railroad financing before 1860

The fundamental cause of the South's lack of railroad construction was the

The most obvious change in the North in the decades before the Civil War was the

Slavery warped southern whites by

By the middle of the nineteenth century much of the South's cotton trade was controlled by

From 1825 to 1850 American industry was

The slave Isabella

Which of the following statements is a true depiction of this era?

The South was particularly backward in railroad construction because it

The growth of American unions in the antebellum era was retarded by

Summarize how the railroads transformed America's economy and society in the early nineteenth century. Analyze any effects railroads had on sectional tensions.

The most important southern crop in the 1840s and 1850s was

Between 1820 and the Civil War, which of the following could be said about the trend toward general unionization?

The businesses which transformed the economy by encouraging regional concentration of industry and by employing large numbers of salaried managers and developing complex internal structures were the

In the 1830s, Nat Turner gained notoriety as the leader of the

The former slave who preached resistance to slavery and planned a major slave uprising in Charleston was

Manufacturing in the antebellum South was