Chapter 16 SS test
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- Native Born Americans who distrusted immigrants were...
- nativists
- Who smuggled enslaved people from the West Indies?
- slave traders
- Who invented the Cotton Gin?
- Eli Whitney
- What is the site of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1813?
- Virgina
- What is the largest Southern city in 1850?
- New Orleans
- What were southern farmers and ranchers called?
- yeomanry
- Who built the Flying Cloud?
- Donald McKay
- Who helped to invent the Cotton Gin?
- Catherine Greene
- Who bought his freedom with money from a street lottery?
- Denmark Vesey
- Who was the inventor of teh telegraph?
- Samuel F.B. Morse
- Between 1790 and 1860, the cost of enslaved persons....
- rose sharply
- Life in the South moved at what kind of pace?
- leisurely
- The demand for cotton by the North and Great Britain was increased as a result of...
- the Industrial Revolution
- Horticulture was taught to Americans by immigrants from...
- Germany
- In the North much unskilled labor was provided by..
- immigrants
- Many factory owners in the North hired women because women worked...
- for less money
- By the mid-1800s work in factories had become...
- dangarous
- In the 1850's labor unions reemerged mostly among...
- skilled workers
- Between 1840 and 1860, the number of immigrants who entered the United States was about...
- 4.2 million
- Irish American Terence powderly was involved in...
- labor unions
- Describe the five tiers of teh Southern class structure.
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1. planters: wealthy plantaion owners who lead Southern society.
2. yeomanry: owners of small farms who generally held no slaves and depended on neighbors for social life and favors.
3. poor whites: whites living in the mountains or pine woods renting their land. They enjoyed rights not extended to Aferican Americans.
4. free African Americans: those who purchased or were given their freedom. They lived under strict rules.
5. enslaved African Americans: worked on plantations and were denied basic human rights.