Chapter 14 Review-8th

Is it true that nearly all farmers in the South had enslaved people working for them?

• True

• False

Many immigrants from which country became servants and factory workers?

• Russia

• England

• Spain

• Ireland

Southern whites that rented farmland from landowners were called?

• plantation renters

• yeomen

• tenant farmers

• rural poor

Who were the largest group of whites in the South?

• yeomen

• rural poor

• plantation owners

• tenant farmers

The slave codes were also known as Nativist Laws.

• True

• False

What did workers with the same skills form?

• strikes

• trade unions

• factories

• plantations

What did industrial workers stage in order to put pressure on employers to change unsafe working conditions, long hours, and low pay?

• trade unions

• strikes

• plantations

• factories

Which group of Southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled?

• plantation owners

• yeomen

• tenant farmers

• rural poor

Why did factories hire children during the early 1800s?

• Could pay them less

• Could fit into small spaces and fix machines.

• Could fight the system

• Had to provide for their families

What transformed trade in the nation’s interior?

• railways

• steam boats

• new roads

• cars