US History Chapter 13/14 Test

Who constructed the first mechanical reaper?

• John Deere
• Samuel Morse
• Robert Fulton
• Cyrus McCormick

By 1860, the Midwest and the East were united by a network of

• Steam Powered Ships
• canals
• railroad tracks
• roads

With other workers of the same skills, workers formed

• prejudices
• trade unions
• famines
• strikes

Famine caused people to immigrate to the United States from which country ?

• Germany
• Spain
• Ireland
• Britain

Arriving between 1820 and 1860, the second largest group of immigrants was from

• Germany
• Spain
• Ireland
• Britain

The demand for cotton from the South came from mills in

• Asia
• Europe
• The Nort
• Mexico

What large group of Southerners owned small farms of about 50 to 200 acres?

• tenant farmers
• rural poor
• plantation owners
• yeomen

What transformed trade in the nation’s interior?

• sewing machines
• railroads
• telegraphs
• clipper ships

Who led a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion against their slaveholders in 1831?

• Daniel Christian
• Harriett Tubman
• Nat Turner
• Frederick Douglass

The largest group of whites in the South were?

• plantation owners
• tenant farmers
• yeoman
• rural poor