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North and South (1820-1860)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

what was growing stronger in the South due to cotton?

a)

slavery

b)

factories

c)

television

d)

corn

2.

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

a)

16

b)

24,000

c)

84,000

d)

23,000

3.

3 inventions of the 1830s that changed farming

a)

thresher

b)

shovel

c)

mechanical reaper

d)

steep tipped plow

4.

Who created the steel tipped plow?

a)

John Deere

b)

Ariana Grade

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Horace Mann

5.

What pulled early trains?

a)

buffalo

b)

dogs

c)

people

d)

horses

6.

people worked an average ______ hours per day

a)

12.6

b)

4.2

c)

10

d)

11.4

7.

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

a)

British

b)

Canadian

c)

Irish

d)

Russian

8.

people who opposed immigration were known as nativists

a)

true

b)

false

9.

Woman workers were paid ___ as much as men

a)

1/4

b)

3/4

c)

same

d)

1/2

10.

Samuel Morse created

a)

pizza

b)

cotton gin

c)

thresher

d)

morse code

11.

The railroad was more in the

a)

south

b)

north

12.

slavery was mostly in the

a)

south

b)

north

13.

only ____ of plantation owners owned 20 or more slaves

a)

4%

b)

90%

c)

10%

d)

32%

14.

there were _____ public schools in the south

a)

no

b)

many

15.

Nat Turner killed about ____ people

a)

62

b)

34

c)

12

d)

55

16.

the underground railroad was a secret network that helped slaves escape

a)

true

b)

false

17.

laws passed in the southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people

a)

slave codes

b)

yeoman

c)

overseer

d)

strike

18.

a stopping of work by workers to force an employer to meet demands

a)

trade union

b)

slave codes

c)

strike

d)

famine

19.

unfair treatment of a group because of persons race, religion, ethnic background, sexuality.....

a)

famine

b)

discrimination

c)

nativist

d)

trade union

20.

an unfair opinion not based on facts

a)

famine

b)

slave codes

c)

strike

d)

prejudice