SOCIAL STUDIES TEST

Question 1

How were the plantation owners divided? 3 reasons

Answer 1

In the house
Tradsmen
Fields

Question 2

How were the North and South divided Geographicly

Question 3

Into what 3 classes were the whites divided in the South

Answer 3

Plantation owners, farmers, and poor white trash

Question 4

Define Strike

Answer 4

refusual by workers to work in an effort

Question 5

Define Scab

Answer 5

Workers hired to replace striking workers

Question 6

I gave you the authors now name the book they made
Hawthorne
Cooper
Melville
Irving

Answer 6

Scarlet Letter
Last of the Mohicans Moby Dick
Rip Van Wrinkle

Question 7

Leader of the COMMON SCHOOL MOVEMENT

Answer 7

Horace Mann

Question 8

In the beginng all public schools taught it and why did they throw it out

Answer 8

Religion
They didnt know which one to pick but they also fought over it

Question 9

2 main groups of immigration in the 1840´s

Answer 9

Irish and German

Question 10

Wnere did each group settle

Answer 10

The major big cities on the East Coast such as New York or Pennsylvania

Question 11

Why were Catholics discriminated agaisnt?

Answer 11

American citizens feared that they would follow the POPE instead of them

Question 12

What Canal connected NY with the Great Lakes

Answer 12

The Mason Dixen Line