Guided Reading Activity 13-3 - Central Dauphin School District

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SECTION 13-3

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# Guided Reading Activity 13-3

DIRECTIONS: Recalling the Facts Use the information in your textbook to answer the questions. use another sheet of paper if necessary.

1. What states made up the Upper South?

2. What states made up the Deep South?

3. What crop replaced tobacco, rice, and indigo as the leading cash crop of the South?

4. What were the drawbacks of growing tobacco and rice in the South?

5. Why was sugarcane an expensive crop to grow? 6. What caused the huge demand for cotton in the late 1700s?

7. Who invented the cotton gin? 8. What was the cotton gin? 9. How did the cotton gin lead to a demand for more enslaved laborers?

10. How did the agriculture of the Upper South and the Deep South differ by 1860?

11. What are two reasons that there was little industry in the South?

12. Who were two Southerners who felt that factories would revive the economy

of the Upper South? 13. Why did Southern cities grow more slowly than cities in the North and the

Midwest? 14. By 1860 how much of the nation's rail lines lay within the South?

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