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Chapter 14
Industry in the North
Question: John Deere improved on what?
Answer: The steel plow
Question: Who received a patent for a talking wire?
Answer: Samuel Morse
Question: The key to successful trade at sea is what?
Answer: Speed
Question: Factories used what instead of water power?
Answer: steam power
Question: What was used instead of trains to transport things?
Answer: horse or mules
Life in the North
Question: A severe food shortage is what?
Answer: famine
Question: Union workers refused to do their jobs in what?
Answer: strike
Question: Artisans in each trade united formed what?
Answer: Trade Unions
Question: Who faced discomfort and dangers?
Answer: factory workers
Question: What happened when a family member broke a contract?
Answer: the whole family got fired
Cotton kingdom in the South
Question: Who made the cotton gin?
Answer: Eli Whittney
Question: How long did it take to make a model of the cotton gin?
Answer: 10 days
Question: As the cotton gin spread what also spread?
Answer: slavery
Question: What was the most profitable cash crop in the South?
Answer: Cotton
Question: What percent of white southerners lived in towns of more than 4,000 people?
Answer: 8%
Life in the South
Question: How many slaves were needed in order to be a planter?
Answer: 20 slaves
Question: What were wealthy families called?
Answer: Cottonocray
Question: What did many planters become because of their wealth?
Answer: Political leaders
Question: What percent of southern whites were small farmers?
Answer: 75%
Question: Law passed to keep slaves from either running away or rebelling?
Answer: Slave Code
Miscellaneous
Question: Groups of Americans who wanted to preserve the country for Native born, white citizens?
Answer: Nativists
Question: Members answered "I know nothing" to what party?
Answer: know-nothing party
Question: A policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people?
Answer: Discrimination
Question: What percent were free African Americans?
Answer: 2%
Question: African Americans were devoted about what religion?
Answer: Christian