Lives Of The North And South
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Differences between the North and South Quiz
Questions and Answers
- 1.The North's geography included four distinct seasons.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.People in the south used steamboats more than they used trains.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.While there were a few free African-Americans in the South, most of them were slaves.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.African-Americans in the North were free and treated equally.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.The South's economy was based on agriculture and grew mostly cash crops.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Canals were widely used in the north.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The reaper was a harvesting machine, invented by Eli Whitney, that revolutionized grain production.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.The North's population grew in the 1800's because of a flood of Irish and German immigrants.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.By 1860, the South had 10,000 miles of railroad track, but still lagged behind the North.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.The cotton gin lead to an increase in slave ownership.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.The economy of the North was solely based on manufacturing and had very few farms.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Most white people in the South lived on large plantations and owned slaves.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.The South's broad flat rivers and warm climate are what made it ideal of cotton production.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.While the Southern life was ruled by the rising and setting of the sun, Northerner's lives were beginning to be run by "the clock."
- A.
True
- B.
False
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