History North - South

Question 1

Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts for guns

Answer 1

Eli whitney

Question 2

Made the first steam boat

Answer 2

Robert Fulton

Question 3

Designed the mechanical reaper for harvesting wheat

Answer 3

Cyrus McCormick

Question 4

Invented the steel bladed plow

Answer 4

John Deere

Question 5

Invented the telegraph and a code system used with it

Answer 5

Samuel Morse

Question 6

Leader of a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831

Answer 6

Nat turner

Question 7

Organized a union for women working in textile mills

Answer 7

Sarah bagley

Question 8

Memorized design of British textile machines and began the first mill in RI

Answer 8

Samuel Slater

Question 9

Invented the first steam locomotive

Answer 9

Peter cooper

Question 10

A _____ is a labor group that pushes for improvements in working conditions, pay, etc

Answer 10

Union

Question 11

Sometimes workers will go on _____ or stop working until conditions improve

Answer 11

Strike

Question 12

Immigrants and minority groups sometimes face _______ and _______. The Irish and Germans experienced this when they immigrated into the US in the 1800s

Answer 12

Prejudice and discrimination

Question 13

The political party that wanted to make it harder for immigrants to become US citizens was called “_____ ______” or the American party

Answer 13

Know nothings

Question 14

Southern whites that owned small farms with few or no slaves

Answer 14

Dirt farmers

Question 15

Laws in slave states that prohibited the freedoms of slaves were referred to as

Answer 15

Slave codes

Question 16

The ____ were the large scale farmers in the south that had huge amounts of land and many slaves

Answer 16

Planters

Question 17

“____ ___” is the term used to describe the importance of cotton in the south’s economy

Answer 17

King cotton

Question 18

_____ we’re songs of hope sung by slaves

Answer 18

Spirituals

Question 19

Stories with a moral lesson, _____ were also important aspect of Slave culture

Answer 19

Folktales

Question 20

Economy, revolutionized cotton industry

Answer 20

Positive effects of cotton boom

Question 21

Slave and technology increase

Answer 21

Negative effects on cotton boom

Question 22

Work in house ( nursing, cooks, butlers, skilled artisans)

Answer 22

Domestic slaves

Question 23

Carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers

Answer 23

Skilled workers

Question 24

Work in fields (used plow / hoe)

Answer 24

Field hands

Question 25

Maryland Delaware Virginia and North Carolina

Answer 25

Upper south states

Question 26

Georgia South Carolina Alabama and Mississippi

Answer 26

Deep South states

Question 27

The two groups of immigrants that made up the first great wave

Answer 27

Germans and Irish

Question 28

Where did each of those groups settle?

Answer 28

Germans = Midwest Irish = cities

Question 29

Why did southern slave owners issue slave codes

Answer 29

To protect owners since slaves were considered property

Question 30

Did all white southerners own a large number of slaves? Why or why not?

Answer 30

No 12% of south own slaves

Question 31

Why did the south not industrialize like the north?

Answer 31

Climate was better agricultural things

Question 32

North differences

Answer 32

More industry fields Immigrants Transportation

Question 33

South differences

Answer 33

Climate made for agriculture Slaves No industry