North and South (1820-1860)

what was growing stronger in the South due to cotton?

• slavery

• factories

• television

• corn

by 1853 there were about __________ miles of telegraph lines in the US

• 16

• 24,000

• 84,000

• 23,000

3 inventions of the 1830s that changed farming

• thresher

• shovel

• mechanical reaper

• steep tipped plow

Who created the steel tipped plow?

• John Deere

• Ariana Grade

• Eli Whitney

• Horace Mann

What pulled early trains?

• buffalo

• dogs

• people

• horses

people worked an average ______ hours per day

• 12.6

• 4.2

• 10

• 11.4

Between 1846-1860 more than 1.5 million ______ immigrants came to the US

• British

• Canadian

• Irish

• Russian

people who opposed immigration were known as nativists

• true

• false

Woman workers were paid ___ as much as men

• 1/4

• 3/4

• same

• 1/2

Samuel Morse created

• pizza

• cotton gin

• thresher

• morse code