Chapter 10-1 Section Review Question Examples1. How did slavery affect the views that
Northerners and Southerners had of each
other?
Each side believed stereotypes of the other. Northerners
firmly believed that Uncle Tom’s Cabin accurately
depicted Southerners. Southerners felt that Northerners
were hypocritical because labor in factories was reported
to be inhumane and only for profit.
2. What prejudice was common to most whites in
all parts of the country?
They did not believe that whites and blacks were equal
even if they might believe that slavery should be
abolished.
3. How did the economic trends that occurred in
the 1800s affect the North and South
differently?
The North benefitted from government expansion of the
railroads; they were able to connect to transportation
centers more easily than the South. The North attracted
diverse workers like new immigrants while the South did
not need them as they had a supply of slave labor.
Southern population lagged because of this. The South
still relied on canals while the North made the transition
to railroads to move their goods. The South tended to
work with raw goods like cotton while the North used
their industry to finish the products. As a result, the North
had a lot more factories and led the South in exports and
goods produced.
4. Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin successful in
changing many people’s attitude toward
slavery?
It introduced characters that people could readily
identify with like mean, evil Simon Legree and the saintly,
Tom. There was even an example of a Northern woman
who challenged her husband to support abolition because
that is what the bible called people to do.
5. Write a short paragraph summarizing the two
main views held by historians on the issue of
whether the Civil War could have been avoided.
Some historians have argued if the United States had
better leadership that the people could not have been
persuaded to enter into a Civil War by extremists. There is
also the argument that despite disagreements over
slavery, there were many issues that Americans all over
the country felt the same about hence a compromise
could have been struck. Recently some historians have
rejected the similarity idea arguing that regions, racial
groups and social classes were so different that a conflict
would really have been inevitable.