Industry in North
What was used for the faster production of clothing?
What is the sewing machine?
What were Irish immigrants escaping?
What is the potato famine?
What invention caused the Cotton Kingdom?
What is the cotton gin?
Where did most free African Americans live in the South?
What is the Border States (and New Orleans)?
What did trade unions demand?
What is shorter hours and better pay?
What region was finally settled due to the invention of the steel plow?
What is the Great Plains?
Who are an anti-immigration group who pushed for new laws against immigrants?
Who are the nativists?
Why was cotton bad for the soil?
What is the farmers did not rotate crops and the same crop wore out the soil.
True or False: The majority of white Southerners enslaved men, women and children.
False.
Give one example of a restricting law against enslaved people:
Enslaved people could not: read or write, own weapons or assemble in groups
Who invented the telegraph?
Who is Samuel Morse?
What usually happened when artisans went on strike and why?
What is they won their demands because their skills were needed by factory owners.
How did cotton give the South more power?
What is more money and more political power in government?
What did most enslaved people do in the South?
What is worked in the fields (cotton, tobacco, etc.)
What made Frederick Douglass unique?
What is he learned to read and write, taught others, stood up for himself and ran away.
What does a mechanical reaper do?
What is mow grain?
What happened when women workers wanted to join labor unions?
What is they were not allowed due to their gender, so they created their own unions.
How did cotton make the North dependent on the South?
What is the textile mills needed the raw material.
A "planter" enslaved how many people?
What is 20?
What could free African Americans not do in the North?
What is vote, jury duty, school, get good jobs, etc.
Why was the clipper ship significant to the US economy?
What is it won a large share of world trade due to speed.
Why did German immigrants have more success than Irish immigrants?
What is they came with more money and were mostly Protestant (not Catholic).
Give two reasons why the South was dependent on the North?
What is it did not have factories and needed to buy goods from the North, food crops from the North, bank loans from the North, etc.
What kind of land did Southerns who owned no slaves live on?
What is hilly areas with bad soil.
Where were enslaved people allowed to gather in large groups in the South when they were not working?
What is church?