Question 1

This man invented the sewing machine:

Accepted Answer

Elias Howe

Answer

Samuel Morse

Answer

Robert Fulton

Question 2

Workers formed these organizations with other workers of the same skills:

Accepted Answer

trade unions

Answer

strikes

Answer

famines

Question 3

Famine caused people from this country to migrate to the US:

Accepted Answer

IReland

Answer

Scotland

Answer

Great Britain

Question 4

This shortage would cause devastating consequences for the South during the Civil War:

Accepted Answer

railroads

Answer

rivers

Answer

canals

Question 5

Which of the following is FALSE about the yeomen?

Accepted Answer

largest group of whites in the North

Answer

grew crops for their own use

Answer

sold or traded their produce to local merchants

Question 6

Which statement is INCORRECT about the duties of the plantation owner's wife?

Accepted Answer

watching over the enslaved workers in the field

Answer

served as an accountant

Answer

managing fruit and vegetable gardens

Question 7

Who led a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion against their masters in 1831?

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Answer

Daniel Christian

Answer

Fredrick Douglass

Question 8

Workers staged these to put pressure on employers:

Accepted Answer

strikes

Answer

lockouts

Answer

trade unions

Question 9

This had transformed the stagnant economy of the South into a prosperous, robust economy:

Accepted Answer

cotton

Answer

sugar cane

Answer

tobacco

Question 10

This made it a crime to teach enslaved people how to read and write:

Accepted Answer

slave codes

Answer

overseers

Answer

spirituals

Question 11

In the 1840s these were the pride of the open seas:

Accepted Answer

clipper ships

Answer

iron-clad ships

Answer

steam-powered boats

Question 12

An invention that prompted the start of dozens of new newspapers:

Accepted Answer

steam cylinder rotary press

Answer

cotton press

Answer

telegraph

Question 13

This kept the price of cotton high in the years before 1860:

Accepted Answer

demand in Great Britain

Answer

cotton gin

Answer

slavery

Question 14

This became a center for the sale and transport of enslaved people throughout the South:

Accepted Answer

upper south

Answer

deep south

Answer

south carolina

Question 15

The main goal of a large plantation owner was to:

Accepted Answer

earn profit

Answer

enslave people

Answer

produce more cotton

Question 16

This network of safe houses assisted runaway enslaved people:

Accepted Answer

underground railroad

Answer

slave houses

Answer

runaway houses

Question 17

Which of the following was NOT a domestic servant duty?

Accepted Answer

weaving

Answer

laundry

Answer

serving meals

Question 18

Which statement is FALSE concerning why the South grew more slowly than the North?

Accepted Answer

rail lines were short and did not connect states within a region

Answer

poor roads

Answer

few canals

Question 19

Which statement is INCORRECT about the three phases of industrialization in the North?

Accepted Answer

huge amounts of capital - money to invest in production

Answer

factory workers used machines to perform some of their work

Answer

manufacturers made products by dividing the tasks involving the workers

Question 20

All of the following is correct about nativists accusing immigrants of except:

Accepted Answer

spreading disease

Answer

way of life

Answer

bringing crime

Question 21

Which state does not belong to the deep south?

Accepted Answer

virginia

Answer

georgia

Answer

alabama

Question 22

Which of the following was NOT a crop of the upper south?

Accepted Answer

rice

Answer

wheat

Answer

vegetables

Question 23

Which of the following is INCORRECT concerning trained African Americans?

Accepted Answer

cabinet makers

Answer

blacksmith

Answer

weavers

Question 24

Which statement is FALSE concerning what immigrants brought to the US?

Accepted Answer

disease

Answer

culture

Answer

religion

Question 25

Which farming invention was NOT used in the 1840s?

Accepted Answer

mechanical seeder - planting seeds in rows

Answer

mechanical reaper - speed up harvesting wheat

Answer

thresher - separated the grain from the stalk

Question 26

All of the following statements is true about why there was little industry int he south EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

large markets in the South, more people

Answer

lack of capital - no money to invest

Answer

boom in cotton sales

Question 27

Which of the following was NOT a part of a slave's diet?

Accepted Answer

sweet potateos

Answer

pork fat

Answer

molasses

Question 28

This group of southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled:

Accepted Answer

plantation owners

Answer

yeomen

Answer

tenant farmers

Question 29

Most enslaved people on plantations worked as:

Accepted Answer

field hands

Answer

blacksmith

Answer

domestic servants

Question 30

Which of the following was NOT a crop of the deep south?

Accepted Answer

tobacco

Answer

rice

Answer

sugar cane

Question 31

African American religious folk song

Accepted Answer

spiritual

Answer

fixed costs

Answer

overseer

Question 32

Plantation manager

Accepted Answer

overseer

Answer

tom thumb

Answer

cotton in

Question 33

Regular expenses

Accepted Answer

fixed costs

Answer

overseer

Answer

peter cooper

Question 34

Removed seeds from fiber

Accepted Answer

cotton gin

Answer

millard fillmore

Answer

samuel morse

Question 35

Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization

Accepted Answer

Sarah G Bagley

Answer

Peter Cooper

Answer

Tom Thumb

Question 36

Candidate for the "Know Nothing Party"

Accepted Answer

Millard Fillmore

Answer

Peter Cooper

Answer

Tom Thumb

Question 37

Invented the mechanical reaper

Accepted Answer

Cyrus McCormick

Answer

Peter Cooper

Answer

Robert Fulton

Question 38

Nickname of the first steam-powered locomotive

Accepted Answer

Tom Thumb

Answer

overseer

Answer

cotton gin

Question 39

Built the first American steam locomotive

Accepted Answer

Peter Cooper

Answer

Samuel Morse

Answer

Millard Fillmore

Question 40

Clermont

Accepted Answer

Robert Fulton

Answer

Tom Thumb

Answer

Samuel Morse

Question 41

Series of dots and dashes

Accepted Answer

Samuel Morse

Answer

cotton gin

Answer

fixed costs

Question 42

Tredegar Iron Works

Accepted Answer

Joseph Reid Anderson

Answer

William Gregg

Answer

Rich Man's Crop

Question 43

Chief means of transportation in the South

Accepted Answer

natural waterways

Answer

famine

Answer

railroads

Question 44

People opposed to immigration

Accepted Answer

nativists

Answer

famine

Answer

rich man's crop

Question 45

Worked on landlord's estates

Accepted Answer

tenant farmers

Answer

nativists

Answer

racial prejudice

Question 46

sugar cane

Accepted Answer

rich man's crop

Answer

cotton

Answer

famine

Question 47

merchant from South Carolina who opened a textile mill

Accepted Answer

William Gregg

Answer

railroads

Answer

Joseph Reid Anderson

Question 48

Unfair opinion not based on facts

Accepted Answer

racial prejudice

Answer

immigration

Answer

discrimination

Question 49

network connected to the midwest with the east

Accepted Answer

railraods

Answer

famine

Answer

tenant farmers

Question 50

extreme shortage of food

Accepted Answer

famine

Answer

cotton

Answer

discrimination

Question 51

movement of people in a country

Accepted Answer

immigration

Answer

nativists

Answer

racial prejudice

Question 52

"king" and the main topic of conversation in the south

Accepted Answer

cotton

Answer

rich man's crop

Answer

sugar cane

Question 53

unfair treatment of people

Accepted Answer

discrimination

Answer

immigration

Answer

nativists

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