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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