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North and South
Ch. 13 8th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What increased cotton processing? | Cotton Gin |
| What is a plantation manager? | overseer |
| What is a form of a loan | credit |
| What is it called when you refuse to work? | strike |
| What is it called when you have a shortage of food? | famine |
| Who constructed the first mechanical reaper? | Cyrus McCormick |
| What did most enslaved people on a plantation work as? | field hands |
| Where did many immigrants live in? | slums |
| What did workers do to put pressure on employers? | staged strikes |
| What was the main crop of the Deep South? | cotton |
| Who built the first U.S steam locomotive? | Peter Cooper |
| Who transmitted the first telegraph message | Samuel Moore |
| Who was an enslaved African American who rebelled? | Nat Turner |
| What is another name for a regular expense | fixed costs |
| Who formed the American Party? | nativists |
| What did workers who had the same skills form? | trade unions |
| From what country did famine cause people to immigrate to the United States? | Ireland |
| Where where the second largest group of immigrants from? | Germany |
| What large group of Southerners owed small farms? | yeomen |
| What was the North main source of income? | industry |
| What was the South main source of income? | agriculture |
| Who were members of the Know-Nothing-Party? | nativists |
| Who grew sugarcane? | Deep South |
| Who produced tobacco? | Upper South |
| What kind of network was the Midwest and the East united by? | railroad tracks |
| Where did the demand for cotton from the South come from? | Europe |
| If there was a shortage of what, would it have a devastating consequences for the South during the Civil War? | railroads |
| What transformed trade in the nation's interior? | railways |
| What did the economy of the South depend on? | slavery |