Reading Questions for Second Economic Packet

As you read this packet, answer the the following reading questions:

1. What factors caused the decline of agriculture in the Northeast?
2. How did the rise of cities affect agriculture across the country?
3. How did the economic development of the Northwest compare to the other regions of the country in the 1840s and 50s?
4. What factors caused this economic development?
5. How did the average Western farmer compare to those in the South and Northeast?
6. How did the relationship between the Northwest and Northeast affect the South?
7. How did new agricultural techniques foster even more growth for the Northwest?
8. What caused the Northwest to consider itself the most 'democratic' region of the country?
9. Compare people living in rural areas to those living in urban areas.
10. What led to the decline of tobacco as the leading source of income for the South?
11. How was the production of cotton linked to westward expansion?
12. Why were sugar, long staple cotton, and tobacco not as profitable as short staple cotton?
13. What role did "factors" play in the economy of the South?
14. Why did railroad expansion in the South not lead to the economic boom it caused in the North?
15. How is "De Bow's Review" an example of the economic subordination of the South to the North?
16. What factors led the North and South to go, economically speaking, in two different directions?