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Chapter 13: The Sections Go Their Ways

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	As southerners moved westward into the Gulf Coast states and territories, they tended to diversify their agricultural production.    True  False

	In the decade before the Civil War, the price of slaves was increasing, but a smaller proportion of southerners owned slaves.    True  False

	In the decade before the Civil War, the profitability of slave labor was declining.    True  False

	On antebellum southern plantations, most of the household goods and food were produced on the plantation itself.    True  False

	The sexual division of labor on antebellum southern plantations meant that most slave men were field hands, but most slave women worked as household servants.    True  False

	The United States was the only slave society in the Western Hemisphere where the slave population grew by natural increase.    True  False

	Due to the ready availability of raw cotton, waterpower, and cheap labor, most of the textile manufacturing in early nineteenth-century America was done in the South.    True  False

	Ironically, in the three decades before the Civil War, northern industry proved to be remarkably resistant to adopting new technology.    True  False

	In the 1850s, the earlier prejudice against the corporation began to break down.    True  False

	Wives and children of early nineteenth-century factory workers also had to work in the factory to enable the family to survive.    True  False

	After the decision in Commonwealth v. Hunt in 1842, most unskilled workers in America joined labor unions.    True  False

	With the production of ocean-going steam ships in the 1840s and 1850s, shipping rates between Europe and the United States declined.    True  False

	Unlike during the canal boom, state and local governments did not invest public funds in the construction of railroads in the mid-nineteenth century.    True  False

	Railroad expansion increased the economic self-sufficiency of mid-nineteenth-century American farmers.    True  False

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