Lesson 9 Study Guide

The New Southern Economy

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Diversifying the Economy
: Producing and selling many different types of products to
different places to have a better, stronger economy

The Plan for Diversifying the Southern Economy
1. Plant more
2. Harvest and excavate
3. Build and
4. Construct
5. Expand

How the South Diversied Crops
1. : using machines to farm one major crop to sell in bulk to
buyers who use the crop to make products that people can use.
2. : any one crop that a farmer grows in large amounts in
order to sell
3. The 3 major cash crops of the South: , &

How the South Diversied with Natural Resources
1. : a business where workers cut down large numbers of
trees and then sell them to processors
! Products from Logging: and
2. : a business where people dig underground to nd minerals
! : things that form naturally underground and are
usually found in rocks
! : the South's most known area for mining iron,
limestone, and coal

How the South Diversied by Rening and Processing
1. Convert natural resources into raw materials
! : a natural resource that has had impurities removed
from it so that it may be used to make products that people can use

Lesson 9 Study Guide
The New Southern Economy
! : any materials that are mixed with or attached to a
natural resource
2. : removing the unwanted materials from a natural
resource to make it clean or pure
! : a building that contains all the equipment and
workers needed to remove the unwanted materials from minerals
3. : a group of actions completed to change a natural
resource in some way
! : a building that contains all the equipment and
workers needed to remove bark and cut logs into lumber

How the South Expanded Infrastructure
1. : all the equipment and structures, like roads, bridges,
and railways, that are needed by a region to function
2. : the rst railroad that crossed the entire North
American continent and connected the Eastern United States to the Western
United States
3. : allowed the South to sell their products further distances
4. : allowed perishable goods to be shipped over longer distances

Southern Industrialization
1. : when a region moves away from farming as the way it makes
money and opens industries to produce goods as their major way to make money
2. : buildings where workers use equipment or machines
to make large amounts of one product from a specic set of raw materials
3. Cash Crops industries:
! Tobacco industry
! : used cotton to create textiles (thread and fabric)
! : factories that preserved the vegetables produced
by farms to keep them from spoiling
4. Natural Resource Industries:
! : Harvesting trees
! Processing industries: Lumber mills and Paper Mills
! : Mining minerals
! Rening Industries: Iron, limestone and coal
! Energy: - electricity that is produced by water