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WorksheetsChapter 14 exam
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 5hrs 36mins
True or False. The use of machines sped the rate of the production of manufactured goods.
True
False
Which is not a innovation in transportation during the 1800s?
Airplanes
Railroads
Clipper ships
Steam boats
What is a system for sending coded messages instantly along electrical wires?
Telegraph
Overseer
Clipper ship
Slave codes
The Great Plains included all of the following states except ___________.
Minnesota
Virginia
Iowa
Missouri
Hint: Occurred in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, between Camp Hill Station and Fort Washington Station
Two trains, traveling on the same track in converging directions, collided, killing between 59 and 67, and injuring over 100. This was known as one of the worst train wrecks in American history.
The Great Train Wreck of 1856
Fidenae Amphitheatre Collapse
Hatfield Rail Crash
North Carolina Train Collision
Workers began organizing into _____ to try to get factory owners to improve conditions at work.
Trade Unions
Machines
Factories
Labor laws
Which lesson 2 term is defined by "unfair treatment"?
Discrimination
Prejudice
Strike
Community
What is the closest definition to the academic term "community"?
A group of people who live in the same area
An unfair opinion not based on facts
An extreme shortage of food
To give an official authority to do something
Which term is defined by "To give an official authority to do something"
License
Nativists
Productivity
Charter
True or False. People in the South moved from the Deep South to the Upper South.
True
False
T or F. The cotton gin increased the speed of production by processing the cotton (separating the seeds).
True
False
True or False. The buying and selling of enslaved Africans was known as the domestic slave trade.
True
False
How did people in the South transport their crops and goods?
Natural Waterways
Railroad
UPS expedited shipping
Horse and wagon
True or False. Southern cities grew slowly due to the poor quality rail road system.
True
False
True or False. The success of the South's economy did not depend on slave labor.
True
False
Chattanooga grew because it was an important railroad system.
True
False
True or False. Cyrus McCormick became famous for his invention of the steel tipped plow.
True
False
Which is the closest definition to "overseer"?
Plantation manager
A person who owns a small farm
Permitted by law
The ability to read and write
True or False. The economy of the South was based mostly industry.
True
False
Which academic term is defined as "To prepare"?
Productivity
Literacy
Process
Consequence
________________ became the first licensed African American lawyer.
Macon B. Allen
Samuel Cornish
Frederick Douglass
Alexander Hamilton
True or False. The "Know Nothing" Party consisted of a group of people who opposed immigration.
True
False
A work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer is a __________.
Strike
Labor law
Prejudice
Discrimination
Definition: "A new development or invention"
Innovation
Morse Code
Community
Telegraph
What fraction of United States' manufactured goods, did Northeast factories contribute?
1/2
2/3
1/8
1/12
Who is a person who is opposed to immigration?
Nativist
Whig
Yeoman
Cayuse
True or False. Cotton became the chief crop of the South.
True
False
True or False. The use of machines slowed the rate of the production of manufactured goods.
True
False
What was the main purpose of slave codes?
To prevent enslaved workers from rebelling
To establish rules for buying enslaved African Americans
To prevent people from importing enslaved people from other countries
To share secrets from one enslaved worker to an enslaved worker on another plantation
Hint: This expressed joy but also sadness about the conditions of enslaved people. This was often used as a way to communicate secretly.
spirituals
literacy
slave codes
morse codes
