North and South (1800-1850)

Which definition matches "clipper ship"?

• a ship full of pirates who would "clip" your money purse and steal from you

• a ship that was full of hair stylists who would cut sailors hair in each port

• a ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that "clipped" time from long journeys

• a ship with tight sails and large hulls that every sailor was jealous of

What is "a device that used electric signals to send messages"?

• John Deere's plow

• telegraph

• steamboat

• Morse code

What is a "system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet"?

• Morse code

• telegraph

• Telegraph's code

• Morse's Secret Code

A "trade union" is...

• an extreme shortage of food

• a union that allows people to switch into new careers

• a group of workers who often trade what they have in a barter system

• a group of workers with the same trade, or skill

When workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to make a change to wages or working conditions...

• strike

• boycott

• trade union

• nativist

What is a prejudice?

• unfair treatment

• an unfair opinion not based on facts

• a person opposed to immigration

Discrimination is defined as...

• an unfair opinion not based on facts

• nativist

• emigrant

• unfair treatment

An emigrant is...

• a person who wants to move home

• a person who leaves his or her homeland to move elsewhere

• a person who goes to Canada

• a person who is going to move from one state to another

When there is an extreme shortage of food it's called a...

• hunger

• hunger strike

• famine

• starvation

Once Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, what increased in business?

• literacy

• productivity

• slave codes

• the number of crops a factory owner could grow