Chapter 14 Review

The price of cotton changed from season to season.

Morse code is a system of dots and dashes mixed with letters of the alphabet.

The Know-Nothing Party worked to improve education.

The invention of the sewing machine helped increase the mass production of cotton cloth.

A major reason for emigration from Ireland between 1840 and 1860 was a(n) ____.

One purpose of the slave codes was ____.

One difficulty in growing cotton before the invention of the cotton gin was that ____.

Most African Americans in the North could attend public school.

The cotton gin increased productivity by ____.

One consequence of the use of the cotton gin was that ____.

Slave holders could legally break an enslaved family apart.

On a plantation, the overseer's job was to keep the plantation's financial records.

The Midwest was connected to the East by 1860 because of ____.

Which statement describes Southern transportation at this time?

How did the Southern economy differ from the Northern economy?

The Great Train Wreck of 1856 involved two trains traveling on the same track.

The law passed in 1808 banning the import of slaves made slavery illegal in the United States.

Robert Fulton improved transportation with his invention of the ____.

The system of canals and the invention of the steamboat encouraged the growth of cities.

A few African Americans found success in business in the mid-1800s.

The work of most enslaved people was ____.

In the early 1800s, men kept women from joining trade unions.

A strike is ____.

The Erie Canal was one reason that prices of goods shipped to the Midwest increased.

One effect of the invention of the cotton gin was the development of the domestic slave trade.

One consequence of the factory system was that ____.

Phase one of industrialization in the North was that ____.

Most Southern leaders wanted to develop industry to help the South's economy.

The invention of the thresher helped farmers ____.

Southern farmers who owned small farms of 50 to 200 acres were called ____.

Large extended families were not possible for enslaved African Americans.

The number of hours children worked in the early 1800s was limited.

One reason for the slow development of industry in the South was that ____.

The South lagged behind other parts of the country in literacy because ____.

Southern plantation owners traveled often to ____.

By 1850 most people in the South lived along the Atlantic coast.

Why did raising wheat become a main economic activity of the Midwest?

What did nativists believe about immigrants?

The need for enslaved people grew in both the North and the South.

Cities grew to be trade centers linking Midwest farmers w/ the NE because of...