The Worlds of North and South (Chapter 13)

All the northern states experienced four very distinct _______ from frozen winters to hot, humid summers. (Page 174)

Plentiful rainfall and long _______ seasons made this a perfect place for raising warm-weather crops that would have withered and died farther north. (page 175)

Although most people in the South were farmers, southerners used _______ resources in other ways as well. (Page 175)

• natural

• man made

• neighbor's

• animal

Whitney had hoped that his invention would lighten the work of slaves.  Instead, it made slavery more important than ever.  Between 1790 to 1850, the number of slaves in the South rose from 500,000 to more than __________. (Page 176)

• 1 million

• 2 million

• 3 million

• 5 million

Raising cotton in the same fields year after year soon ____ out the soil. (Page 176)

In search of fresh, fertile soil, cotton planters pushed west.  By 1850, cotton plantations stretched from the Atlantic Coast to _____. (Page 176)

In 1793, a young Yale graduated named ___ _______ took a job tutoring children on a Georgia plantation. He later created a simple machine called the Cotton Gin. (Page 176)

The shift from hand manufacturing to machines is called the __________  ___________. (Page 177)

• American Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Factory Revolution

• Immigration Revolution

Inspired by the success of steamboats, inventors developed steam-powered _____________.  (Page 180)

• ships

• buses

• locomotives

• engines

Most rail lines were in the North.  In the south, people and goods continued to move on ________. (Page 181)

• roads

• rivers

• trains

• airplane