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Ch 14 North and South
Industry in the north
Question: What is the system of dots and dashes called?
Answer: Morse code
Question: In 1825 who began the manufacture of an iron plow?
Answer: Jethro Wood
Question: What is a telagraph?
Answer: A device that sent electronical signals along a wire
Question: Who patented a sewing machine in 1846?
Answer: Elias Howe
Question: What is the first clipper ship?
Answer: The rainbow
Life in the north
Question: What is a severe food shortage
Answer: a famine
Question: What are skilled workers called?
Answer: Artisians
Question: What do union workers do when they are on strikes?
Answer:
They refuse to do there jobs
Question: In the late 1840s what were many factory workers?
Answer: Immigrants
Question: What did some factory workers have to face when they went to work?
Answer: discomfort and danger
Cotton Kingdom in the south
Question: What was the south's most profitable cash crop?
Answer: Cotton
Question: What did Eli Whitney invent?
Answer: The cotton gin
Question: What were slaves colthes made out of?
Answer: Cheap cotton cloth
Question: What are some products factories made?
Answer: Iron ware
hoes
materials made of hemp
Question: What percent of the nation's mules were raised in the south
Answer: 90%
Life in the south
Question: People who made a huge amount of money from cotton were called?
Answer: Cottonocracy
Question: What stopped slaves from running away?
Answer: The slave code
Question: What could slaves not do under the slave code?
Answer: read or write
Question: In 1860 how many free blacks lived in the south?
Answer: 200,000
Question: What percent of whites were farmers?
Answer: 75%
Miscellaneous
Question: Where did many africian americans try to escape to?
Answer: The north
Question: What was used to pull rail cars?
Answer: A locomotive
Question: Who invented a light weight steel plow?
Answer: John Deere
Question: Who invented a corn planter?
Answer: Henry Blair
Question: The area extending from South Carolina through Alabama and Mississippi to Texas was known as ............
Answer: The Cotton Kingdom