Chapter 16 test
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- Who were native-born Americans who distrusted immigrants?
- nativists
- Who smuggled enslaved people from the West Indies?
- slave traders
- Who invented the Cotton Gin?
- Eli Whitney
- What was the site of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831?
- Virgina
- What was 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 the 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...
- dangerous
- In the 1850s labor unions reemerged mostly among...
- skilled workers
- Between 1840 and 1860, the number if immigrants who entered the US was about...
- 4.2 million
- Irish American Terence Powderly was involved in...
- labor unions
- Describe the 5 teirs of the Southern class structure.
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1. planters: wealthy plantation owners who led Southern society.
2. yeomanry: owners of small farms.
3. poor whites: they lived in the mountains or pine woods. They enjoyed rights that Aferican Americans could not.
4. free African Americans: those who bought their freedom. They lived by a number of rules and many rights were denied to them.
5. enslaved African Americans: worked on plantations and were denied basic human rights.