The North and The South

Plantation life for white overseers was:

• Difficult to manage all of their crops

• Difficult to keep up with their homes

• Easy, African Americans did all of the work in the fields

• Easy, their children did all of the work in the fields

Steamboats were run with:

(a)  

How were white people and black people treated differently during this time period?

What happened when the production of cotton went up?

• The number of slaves went down, they were not as needed

• The South could not keep up with the demand

• The North also started producing cotton

• The number of slaves went up, to keep up with the production of cotton

What was the outcome of Nat Turner's rebellion?

• Laws became stricter on enslaved African Americans

• Enslaved African Americans started escaping to the North

• Laws loosened because of the rebellion

• Nobody was hurt because of the rebellion

What do songs and folklore provide for enslaved African Americans during the 1800s?

Freed African Americans could not:

(a)  

Define Morse Code:

• A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.

• A machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry.

• A process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same.

• A system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegraph that used a certain combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet.

Why did the Lowell Mill girls go on strike?

• They were not getting paid enough

• They had to work long hours

• The conditions were unsafe

• All of the above

Workers go on strike because

(a)