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Chapter 14
Industry in the North
Question: Who recieved a patent for a "talking wire" or telegraph in 1844?
Answer: Samuel F. B Morse
Question: Who improved the plow by making it out of lightweight steel?
Answer: John Deere
Question: What did Elias Howe make in 1846?
Answer: A sewing machine
Question: In 1829, an English family developed a locomotive powered by what?
Answer: Steam
Question: In 1845, John Griffiths launched "Rainbow," the first of what type of ship?
Answer: Clipper ship
Life in the North
Question: What was it called when workers refused to do their jobs?
Answer: A strike
Question: When people have little or no food for a year because of dry weather, it is known as _________
Answer: Famine
Question: _________ is a policy or an attitude that denies equal rights to a certain group of people
Answer: Discrimination
Question: _______ ________ were formed in 1820-1830's
Answer: Trade Unions
Question: A party held by a group of anti-catholic and anti-immigrants
Answer: Know-nothing party
Cotton Kingdom in the South
Question: How many days did it take Eli Whitney to make a model of a cotton gin?
Answer: 10
Question: When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, he was going to a plantation to be a what?
Answer: Tutor
Question: What was the south's most profitable cash crop?
Answer: Cotton
Question: In the 1850's, what began to spread along with the Cotton Kingdom?
Answer: Slavery
Question: Kentucky developed a rural economy that included the breeding of what?
Answer: Horses
Life in the South
Question: Who led a major slave revolt in 1831?
Answer: Nat Turner
Question: To keep slaves from running away or rebelling, the South passed laws called _____ _____
Answer: Slave Codes
Question: A planter was someone who owned 20 whats?
Answer: Slaves
Question: Free African Americans were not allowed to do what 2 things?
Answer: Vote and travel
Question: Most free African Americans were descendants of slaves freed during what?
Answer: American Revolution
Miscellaneous
Question: In the 1840's, what crop in Ireland was killed by disease?
Answer: Potato
Question: Slave codes made it a crime for African Americans to do what two things?
Answer: Read and write
Question: One group of Americans who wanted to preserve the country for native born Americans
Answer: Nativists
Question: By 1860, African Americans made up what fraction of the South?
Answer: 1/3
Question: By the 1850's, the major railroad lines were concentrated in the _____ and ____.
Answer: North and West