Rishita Gorle Ch #14 Study Guide

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  1. 2. The ______ _______ restricted slaves from owning guns, gathering in groups of more than three, and leaving their owner's land without a written pass, all so that they can keep slaves from running away.
  2. 5. More slaves and land were needed to grow and pick more cotton because of Whitney's _____________.
  3. 8. The region from South Carolina through Alabama and Mississippi to Texas had the most ________(a type of crop) plantations.
  4. 9. _______ ________ also led a revolt in order to take revenge against plantation owners in Virginia and was able to kill more than 57 whites. His revolt created a huge impact as Southerners began to fear the uprising of the enslaved.
  5. 11. With the industry not expanding as much in the South, they started to rely on the ____________ which they were resentful about.
  6. 15. Industry in the _______ was small and only existed to support the farmers' needs.
  7. 16. About four million immigrants came to the U.S to work in ________ ____________ during the 1840's and 50's.
  8. 19. Samuel Morse's _____________ was a huge success since it was able to give merchants and farmer's quick information about their supply, prices, and the demand for their goods.
  9. 20. ______(number) thousand English immigrants come to the U.S. in 1850.
  10. 22. More _______ led to more cotton production in the South. (In the North, the practice the South used for cotton production was outlawed.)
  11. 23. ___________ _________ percent of Southern Whites were small farmers who worked with their slaves on fields.
  12. 25. _________ went through a lot of development as they started off slow and unsafe, eventually around 1829, this mode of transportation became steam-powered and was able to barrel along at thirty miles per hour. The new steam-powered engine was called the "Rocket".
  13. 26. One third of the Southern population composed of _____.
  14. 28. Some slave owners treated their slaves __________ because they thought they were valuable property.
  15. 29. Germany had about ___ million immigrants come to the United States around the 1840's and 50's too.
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  1. 1. Cyrus McCormick's factory produced __________ ___________ which were able to mow wheat and other grains quickly. It did the work of five people using hand tools.
  2. 3. Southern cotton had a lot of demand because of the Industrial Revolution, so it was harvested a lot. The process of picking the seeds from the cotton was a very _________ process.
  3. 4. The "major lines" in the U.S. were concentrated in the ______ and West, specifically New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati.
  4. 6. ________ was a cheap, powerful source of energy that could be built anywhere and helped expand the American Industry and produce cheaper goods.
  5. 7. One and a half million people came from ____________ to the United States because of a famine that took place in their country.
  6. 10. Though most of the White Southerns did not own slaves, less than one percent of Southerns called the ___________ were rich slave owners that had at least 50 slaves.
  7. 12. John Deere's _________ made it possible to cultivate more land quicker, making more money.
  8. 13. Clipper ships were vessels with large sails and narrow hulls that moved really fast through the water. In the 1840's and 50's, they were able to "win a lot of the world's sea trade," though later on _____ _____(another mode of transportation) replaced them.
  9. 14. In the year 1850, the _____ immigrants came to the United States as there was a total of 288,000 immigrants.
  10. 17. There were a total of 200,000 ____ _______ living in the South around 1860, and none of the slave owners liked having them around because they were encouraging slaves to rebel.
  11. 18. Many of the planters part of the cottonocracy became political leaders all because of their _______.
  12. 21. _________ ________ led a big revolt against slavery in 1822 but was betrayed and executed.
  13. 24. The advancement on the railroad's rails made traveling faster and safer because they replaced the old wooden rails with ______ rails.
  14. 27. Elias Howe/Isaac Singer developed the ____________ which was able to produce a lot more shirts in a short amount of time compared to when they had to be sewn by hand.