Ch. 14 North & South

Who developed America's first steam powered locomotive?

• Peter Cooper
• Alfred Vail
• John Deere
• Robert Fulton

Who is given credit for perfecting the telegraph?

• Samuel Morse
• Alfred Vail
• Cyrus McCormick
• Sarah Bagley

Who developed the first steel-tipped plow?

• John Deere
• Cyrus McCormick
• John Russworm
• Peter Cooper

Who invented the first mechanical reaper?

• Cyrus McCormick
• Samuel Morse
• Nat Turner
• Samuel Cornish

The world's largest sewing machine company was owned by

• Isaac Singer
• Eli Whitney
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Ford

Where was most of America's industry located around 1850?

• Northeast
• South
• along the entire east coast
• West

Improved transportation led to

• more people moving to the cities and to the west
• less industrial production
• higher taxes on the middle class
• higher export taxes

A group of skilled workers who organized for better wages is called

• a trade union
• a workers alliance
• a society of brothers
• a nativist organization

A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

• prejudice
• discrimination
• racism
• segregation

Why did factory owners hire children?

• to keep costs down
• to be mean
• they only hired children who got kicked out of school
• they worked harder than the adults