Ayaan Amir Ch. #14 Study Guide
Across
- 4. About _______ people came here from Germany around the 1840's-50's.
- 8. Since the _____ became so rich, a lot of them would become political leaders which controlled the Southern region.
- 9. This slave led a bloody but unsuccessful revolt in VA in 1800's.
- 11. Clipper ships made it possible to win in oceanic trading before being replaced with ________.(two words)
- 13. Due to the fact that the Southern industry wasn't growing, the South ended up depending on the North which caused Southerners to _______.
- 14. Samuel Morse made communicating over vast areas possible, expanding trade and making big money with the _____.
- 17. Eli Whitney invented the ________; this cleaned the cotton via removing the seeds and pulling it.(two words)
- 20. England sent us about _______ immigrants; came here in 1850.
- 21. Only _____(two words) of white Southerners owned >50 slaves; this caused this group to be known as the Cottonocracy.
- 22. The Southern ______ was lacklustre and was only enough to meet societal needs; the ____ didn't grow.
Down
- 1. The (two words)________ were intended to keep slaves from running or rebelling; restricted slaves.
- 2. 4 million ______ arrived here during the 1840's and 1850's; many were factory workers in the North.
- 3. The states South Carolina, Alabama,Mississippi, and Texas were mostly where plantations were, giving the area the name, The Cotton _______.
- 5. Cotton was demanded because of its usage during the __________(two words).
- 6. There were 500 _____ in the US in the 1800.
- 7. In the 1860,about 3,800 cotton ____ were produced.
- 10. Some slave owners would treat their slaves with ______ since they viewed them as "valuable property".
- 12. 1.5 million people came here from ________; mostly was because of a famine over there.
- 15. Locomotives made _____ safer and faster.
- 16. Factories powered with ______ could build even more factories almost everywhere.
- 18. The cotton gin massively impacted the _____ wealth since now, planters made huge profits through growing cotton.
- 19. ______ was extremely hard to harvest since seed removal was time-draining.