Chapter 14 Review

During the 1830s and 1840s what were people called who were opposed to immigration?

• abolitionists

• nativists

• reservists

• yeomen

Enslaved people expressed their beliefs in religious folk songs called _____________.

• hymns

• psalms

• slave codes

• spirituals

In what state did the Great Train Wreck of 1856 occur?

• Indiana

• Ohio

• Pennsylvania

• Hawaii

Plantation owners with many enslaved workers were considered very wealthy.

• True

• False

By 1840 what was the average workday for factory workers?

• 6.7

• 8.0

• 11.4

• 16.2

What was one consequence of the cotton gin?

• Deep south farmers got more wheat.

• Domestic slave trade increased.

• Plantations hired more tenant farmers.

• Southern factories quickly developed.

After her own escape from slavery,, Harriet Tubman returned to the South many times to help enslaved African Americans escape to freedom.

• False

• True

Immigrants quickly forgot their customs and languages.

• False

• True

After industrialization, workers' jobs changed.

• True

• False

Long workdays and dangerous working conditions within factories often led to on the job accidents or sometimes death.

• True

• False