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Old MacDonald Had A Farm
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Come One, Come All
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The Steel Curtain
100
this invention greatly increased the efficiency and speed of processing cotton
What is the cotton gin?
100
this machine sent messages via an electric current
What is the telegraph?
100
the 1840s and 1850s saw great numbers of immigrants from these two nations
What is Ireland and Germany?
100
this is the reason that the South had FAR fewer miles of telegraph lines and rail lines than the North
What is they had FAR fewer factories?
100
this biblical story tells of how the ancestry of one individual would be forever slaves to the rest of mankind
What is The Curse of Ham?
200
this invention greatly increased the speed and efficiency of harvesting wheat, oats, and barley
What is the mechanical reaper?
200
the series of dots and dashes used to communicate messages via electric current
What is Morse Code?
200
the major economic concern that some Americans had in regards to the influx of immigrants during the Antebellum period
What is the immigrants would take jobs away from Americans?
200
this was a derogatory term used by plantation owners to refer to the small farmers and poor whites of the South
What is "redneck"?
200
this is the MAIN reason that nearly all white southerners defended the slave system
What is it was essential to the southern economy?
300
two advantages of the steel plow over the cast iron plow
What is it was lighter and much more durable?
300
the massive boom in rail travel was ushered in with the advent of the _______ powered locomotive
What is steam?
300
two cultural concerns that some Americans had in regards to the influx of immigrants during the Antebellum period
What is anti-Catholic feelings (especially against the Irish), some did not speak English, different customs/traditions, some were Jewish, diseases carried by some?
300

according to our book this percent of whites in the South owned no slaves

What is 50% (+)??

300
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400
the Grim Reaper carries one of these grain harvesting tools
What is a scythe?
400
it was his invention that revolutionized the processing of cotton
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
two push factors that drove the immigrants to want to leave their homelands
What is famine (Great Potato Famine in Ireland), political unrest (or) warfare, outbreaks of diseases, lack of jobs?
400
two ways in which the South was economically dependent on the north or Europe
What is they bought the vast majority of manufactured goods from there, they borrowed money from banks there, they sold the vast majority of their crops there?
400
sometimes when a person has had a bad day at work, he/she might want to go home and kick the dog - this refers to what southern defense of slavery
What is poor whites could feel better about themselves as long as there were slaves (they always had someone they could kick around)?
500
Elias Howe and Isaac Singer greatly increased the efficiency of processing textiles with this invention
What is the sewing machine?
500
the impact of the cotton gin is best exemplified by looking at the change in total production of cotton in the South - in 1800 the South produced ______ of cotton and in 1850 the South produced ______ of cotton
What is 6,000 bales / 2 million bales?
500
this organization pushed for laws to limit the number of immigrants coming to the United States
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
500
this term refers to the plantation owners who ruled southern society and politics, and who carried themselves in a very elite manner
What is the "Cottonocracy"?
500
"wage slavery" means this
What is northern factory workers were "slaves to the factory system" - they were not masters of their own time (southern whites were), bosses saw them as easily replaceable and did not value them as individuals?