Climate/Land Features
Northern states experienced how many seasons
What are 4.
Southern economy was based on
What is agriculture (farming)?
Person of wealth who owns industrial businesses
Who are industrialists?
How did most people travel in the south?
What were on the rivers?
Seven out of ten Northerners lived where?
Where are farms?
Why was the South perfect for raising warm-weather crops?
Plentiful rainfall and longer growing seasons
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
Person who brought the Industrial Revolution to US
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
Railroads were mostly in the North or South?
What is North?
How was wealth measured in the South?
What are land and slaves?
How did Northerners change the landscape in the North?
What is deforestation?
Cotton Gin separated ....
What are cotton fibers and seeds?
How did Lowell power his machines
What are fast moving streams to turn a wheel that created energy to the machinery?
How many miles of rail linked the Northern factories to cities?
What is 20,000 miles of rail?
Describe Northern cities.
Lacked sewage, paved roads and were dirty and crowded with disease.
Crops that grew in swamps and marshes
What are rice and sugarcane?
T/F Growing cotton on same land every year was possible
False -- it would wear out the land so they needed fresh land.
Who made more money sewing garments? People using machines or sewing by hand?
Who are people that sewed by hand?
Name the type of ship that made travel faster and increased Northern trade
What are Clipper ships?
A small minority of African Americans in the South were
What is free?
Southerners built towns along ...
What are rivers?
Southerners would buy their luxuries and necessities from
Where is the North?
Proud Southerners called factory workers
What are "wage slaves"?
Maker of the iron rails in the South
What is Virginia's Tredegar Iron Works?
Immigrants from what 2 countries made up most of the immigrants in the early 1800s
What were German and Irish?