111B: Differences between the North and the South

Question 1

Population of the North in 1860

Answer 1

18.65 million

Question 2

Population of the South in 1860

Answer 2

10.5 million

Question 3

Where did most of the immigrants settle?

Answer 3

North

Question 4

In the North what fraction of the population lived in towns?

Answer 4

1/4

Question 5

In the South how much of the population lived in towns?

Answer 5

1 in 14 people

Question 6

In which part of the country did industry grow the most?

Answer 6

North

Question 7

How much of the nations manufactured goods did the South produce in 1860?

Answer 7

10%

Question 8

What was the South’s main source of labour?

Answer 8

Farming

Question 9

What percent of factories were located in the South in 1860?

Answer 9

8%

Question 10

What were the main products farmed in the South?

Answer 10

Cotton, Tobacco, Rice

Question 11

What did the South favour in terms of trade?

Answer 11

Free Trade

Question 12

What did the North favour in terms of trade?

Answer 12

Tariffs

Question 13

Why did the South feel they were being exploited by the North?

Answer 13

The South were dependant on Northern credit to finance, transport and market their goods and resented the profits made by the North

Question 14

What code was important in the South?

Answer 14

Code of honour

Question 15

What laws did the North begin to pass which conflicted with the ‘Code of Honour’

Answer 15

Laws which suppressed duelling

Question 16

What was South’s identity based on?

Answer 16

Slavery, Honour and Christian faith

Question 17

What was the North’s identity based on?

Answer 17

Free Labour, Liberty and Puritanical Christianity

Question 18

Who was generally better educated?

Answer 18

North

Question 19

What did the South tend to resent?

Answer 19

Change

Question 20

What did the Northerners see the Southerners as?

Answer 20

Backwards

Out of touch

Question 21

What did the Southerners see the Northerners as?

Answer 21

Ill-mannered

Aggressive

Question 22

What did the South want politically?

Answer 22

For the State to have power over legislations rather than the Federal Government

Question 23

What were the North less supportive of politically?

Answer 23

The rights of individual states

Question 24

What did the South strongly support?

Answer 24

Slavery

Question 25

What were the economic reasons that the South supported slavery?

Answer 25

The economy relied on cotton and tobacco which were labor intensive. They believed that without slavery their economy would collapse

Question 26

What were slaves also a sign of in the South?

Answer 26

Wealth

Question 27

What were the social reasons that the South supported slavery?

Answer 27

It ‘kept African-Americans in their place’ and established White Supremacy

Question 28

What did the North think slavery was against?

Answer 28

The Declaration of Independence

Question 29

From when did the North begin to ban slavery?

Answer 29

1777-1858

Question 30

Who did the North agree with on slavery?

Answer 30

Abolitionists