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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