Chapter 9- Mexico Cedes Land to the United States

[Pages:2]Chapter 9- Mexico Cedes Land to the United States

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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those. 1. 10 2. the east/west borders of the United States officially became the Atlantic and Pacific oceans 3. New Mexico 4. Arizona 5. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas 6. $25 million 7. Statehood was usually influenced by population. (Nevada, an exception, was brought into the Union during the Civil War.) Some of the

states had resources and climates that attracted large numbers of settlers, while others did not. The discovery of gold in California, for example, attracted many people to the area. States such as Arizona and New Mexico had few resources and little land for traditional farming, which may have discouraged prospective settlers in the 19th century.

Chapter 10- Slave Populations in the United States

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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those. 1. Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri,

and Tennessee 2. Oregon, California, Minnesota, and Iowa 3. These three states were on the very edge of the Confederacy. They had many fewer slaves than the rest of the Southern states. They must

have seen that there were disadvantages to siding with the Southern states. 4. Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Virginia 5. New York, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Illinois 6. Possible answer: The South was their home and had been for as long as they or their families had been in America, and they did not wish to leave it.

Also, they might have thought that things would be different for them in the South after the war.

Chapter 11- Resources of the North and South

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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those. 1. 71%, 29%; more than 2 to 1 2. industrial workers 3. The North would have much more money to draw on to finance their war effort than the South would. 4. At the time of the Civil War, it can be assumed that railroads were the major way that large quantities of men and material were moved from

place to place. The North was better able to do this. 5. The North already had similar leads in manufacturing plants and in industrial workers, and they would indicate a similar advantage in the

value of manufactured goods. 6. The slave population represented a large group of people who still had to eat and live but could not have been expected to contribute to the

South's war effort and would be a drain on the South's resources. This meant that as a usable resource, the South's 29% of the country's population was a misleadingly high figure.

Chapter 12- The Economic Effects of the Civil War

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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those.

1. The Midwest and the Middle Atlantic States; the movement of richest states was to the upper Mid-west and away from the borderline South.

2. Tennessee and Virginia; they had slipped to being only moderately wealthy.

3. Missouri and Kentucky were among the wealthiest, Maryland was moderately wealthy, and Delaware was among the least wealthy; it was unchanged for all of them.

4. At the start of the Civil War, the South was basically moderately wealthy, with only a few states among the wealthiest and least wealthy; in 1870, the region had almost uniformly slipped into a region of the least wealthy.

5. The war was fought mostly on southern soil, so the South suffered far more devastation. The destruction of farmland ruined the South's agricultural economy. The North profited from the industries that sprang up to supply its army and continued to produce peace-time products thereafter.

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