Chapter 14: North and South

Many children in the South lacked the ability to read or write, otherwise known as

• innovation.

• capital.

• literacy.

• spiritual

What large group of Southerners owned small farms of about 50 to 200 acres and usually did not own slaves?

• tenant farmers

• yeoman

• rural poor

• plantation owners

What did the thriving economy of the South depend on?

• tobacco

• slavery

• rice

• railroads

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

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Eli Whitney

• Nat Turner

To put pressure on employers in Northern factories, workers staged

• trade unions

• strikes

• famines

• marches

Many immigrants from which country became servants and factory workers and often lived in city slums?

• Germany

• Ireland

• Scotland

• Great Britain

Which invention filled the need for a method of communication that kept up with industrial growth and fast-paced travel?

• telegraph

• steam engine

• mechanical reaper

• railroads

What did John Deere invent in 1837?

• steam engine

• steel tipped plow

• thresher

• mechanical reaper

Usually wealthy, from which country did the second largest group of immigrants arrive into the United States between 1820 and 1860?

• Mexico

• Ireland

• Great Britain

• Germany

What were people called who were opposed to immigration?

• anti-aliens

• yeoman

• overseers

• nativists