CH 8 Test

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The Industrial Revolution in the northern United States began in

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textile factories.

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How did the cotton gin lead to increased cotton production in more places throughout the South?

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It reduced the time needed to process cotton.

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While the Upper South produced more tobacco and vegetable crops, the Deep South produced more

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cotton and rice.

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Because cotton farming resulted in large profits for Southern planters, what did most wealthy Southerners do?

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most wealthy Southerners reinvested their money in agriculture rather than in industry.

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By the mid-1800s, which product accounted for more than half of American exports? Options: gold and silver from the West, wheat and corn from the Midwest, raw cotton from the South, textile goods from the North

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raw cotton from the South

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White Southerners who owned small farms that produced crops for their own use and to trade with local merchants were called

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yeomen.

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What was the primary reason for slave codes?

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to establish white peoples' control over every aspect of the lives of enslaved people

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Which of the following trends led to the Second Great Awakening? Reformers worked to improve and expand access to education. Abolitionists traveled to spread their ideas about freedom for all people. Settlers on the frontier practiced their religion in an energetic new manner. Colleges began to open to women and African Americans.

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Settlers on the frontier practiced their religion in an energetic new manner.

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The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 brought people together to discuss

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women’s rights.

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Which invention was most responsible for the increase in Southern cotton production after 1800? Options: the thresher, the mechanical reaper, the steel-tipped plow, the cotton gin

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the cotton gin