WorksheetsNorth and South (1820-1860)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 36mins
what was growing stronger in the South due to cotton?
slavery
factories
television
corn
by 1853 there were about __________ miles of telegraph lines in the US
16
24,000
84,000
23,000
3 inventions of the 1830s that changed farming
thresher
shovel
mechanical reaper
steep tipped plow
Who created the steel tipped plow?
John Deere
Ariana Grade
Eli Whitney
Horace Mann
What pulled early trains?
buffalo
dogs
people
horses
people worked an average ______ hours per day
12.6
4.2
10
11.4
Between 1846-1860 more than 1.5 million ______ immigrants came to the US
British
Canadian
Irish
Russian
people who opposed immigration were known as nativists
true
false
Woman workers were paid ___ as much as men
1/4
3/4
same
1/2
Samuel Morse created
pizza
cotton gin
thresher
morse code
The railroad was more in the
south
north
slavery was mostly in the
south
north
only ____ of plantation owners owned 20 or more slaves
4%
90%
10%
32%
there were _____ public schools in the south
no
many
Nat Turner killed about ____ people
62
34
12
55
the underground railroad was a secret network that helped slaves escape
true
false
laws passed in the southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people
slave codes
yeoman
overseer
strike
a stopping of work by workers to force an employer to meet demands
trade union
slave codes
strike
famine
unfair treatment of a group because of persons race, religion, ethnic background, sexuality.....
famine
discrimination
nativist
trade union
an unfair opinion not based on facts
famine
slave codes
strike
prejudice
