Life in North and Cotton South Test Review

Question 1

Where did the Industrial revolution start?

Answer 1

England

Question 2

Who was Samuel Slater?

Answer 2

built first modern textile mill in the U.S

Question 3

Where did it take hold in America?

Answer 3

The North

Question 4

What was an early power source?

Answer 4

water

Question 5

What was the Lowell factory system?

Answer 5

Spinning and weaving under one roof

Question 6

Who were the “Lowell girls” and how did they live?

Answer 6

They were young girls who worked in the Lowell mill factories and they lived in the boarding houses provided by the factories

Question 7

What were some benefits and dangers of factory life?

Answer 7

Benefits
steady pay
Easy to find job
Woman and children can earn money

Dangers
Long hours
unfair wages
no safety

Question 8

As urbanization is directly tied to the growth of _________?

Answer 8

cities

Question 9

How did the telegraph change communication?

Answer 9

Made communication faster and easier and quick access to information

Question 10

As conditions got worse, what changes did workers and trade unions seek to make?

Answer 10

Better wages and working conditions, shorter hours

Question 11

Why did waves of immigrants come to the North?

Answer 11

Economic instability, economic opportunities, famines, job opportunities

Question 12

What 2 countries did most immigration come from in the mid 1800s?

Answer 12

Ireland and Germany

Question 13

Many Protestant Americans were concerned because of the different religions of the new immigrants What 2 religions were they?

Answer 13

Jewish and Catholic

Question 14

Who were the Nativists?

Answer 14

anti-immigrant Political Party

Question 15

Issac Singer - _________
______________ - mechanical reaper
Samuel Morse - ___________
John Deere - ___________

Answer 15

sewing machine

telegraph
steel plow

Question 16

What crop became most important to the south in the 1800s

Answer 16

cotton

Question 17

What invention helped lead the way to making this crop so profitable, and who invented it?

Answer 17

Cotton Gin, Eli Whitney

Question 18

Where was all of this cotton going?

Answer 18

textile mills in North and Europe

Question 19

The demand for cotton increased the demand for what?

Answer 19

Slaves

Question 20

What were other important crops in the south?

Answer 20

tobacco, sugar cane, rice

Question 21

What was the focus of the limited industry in the south?

Answer 21

agriculture

Question 22

What were 3 important southern cities?

Answer 22

New Orleans, Richmond, Charleston

Question 23

How many southerners lived in cities?

Answer 23

less than 8%

Question 24

How did lack of industrial jobs keep people poor in the south?

Answer 24

few ways to escape poverty

Question 25

What is the “cottonocracy”?

Answer 25

Group of wealthy families that made huge profits off of cotton

Question 26

75% of southern whites were what?

Answer 26

poor farmers

Question 27

Who had the most power and influence in the south. Planters and farmers or wealthy plantation owners?

Answer 27

Wealthy plantation owners

Question 28

Compare free and enslaved African Americans in the south

Answer 28

Free African Americans faced discrimination, but had some rights while enslaved African Americans had no rights at all.

Question 29

What are slave codes? Identify 3

Answer 29

Not allowed to have guns, no education, forbidden to gather in groups of 3+

Question 30

How were slaves viewed?

Answer 30

property

Question 31

What was the only real protection for a slave from hash treatment?

Answer 31

their valued as property

Question 32

How did white owners threaten slave family life?

Answer 32

threatened to split them apart

Question 33

What is a Spiritual?

Answer 33

religious song about freedom and deliverance