Ch. 13 Test

Question 0

Who transmitted the first telegraph message?

Answer 0

Samuel Morse

Question 1

Who built the first U.S. Steam locomotive?

Answer 1

Peter cooper

Question 2

Who invented the steam powered rotary press?

Answer 2

Richard Hoe

Question 3

Who invented the steel-tipped plow?

Answer 3

John Deere

Question 4

Who designed the mechanical reaper?

Answer 4

Cyrus McCormick

Question 5

Nativists formed what party?

Answer 5

Know nothing party

Question 6

This increased cotton production?

Answer 6

Cotton gin

Question 7

North’s main income

Answer 7

Industry

Question 8

South’s main income

Answer 8

Agriculture

Question 9

Regular expenses

Answer 9

Fixed costs

Question 10

Plantation manager

Answer 10

Overseer

Question 11

Who managed Tredegar Iron Works?

Answer 11

Joseph Reid Anderson

Question 12

A form of loan

Answer 12

Credit

Question 13

Slave who rebelled?

Answer 13

Nat turner

Question 14

A steam powered ship

Answer 14

Great western

Question 15

A clipper ship

Answer 15

Cutty shark

Question 16

A steam locomotive

Answer 16

Tom Thumb

Question 17

A series of dots and dashes

Answer 17

Morse code

Question 18

People opposed to immigration

Answer 18

Nativists

Question 19

This took over the task of weaving

Answer 19

Power driven loom

Question 20

Who lead a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion against their masters in 1831

Answer 20

Nat turner

Question 21

Most factory workers lived in?

Answer 21

Slums

Question 22

Workers staged these to our pressure on employers?

Answer 22

Strikes

Question 23

Many of the immigrants from this country became servants and factory workers?

Answer 23

Ireland

Question 24

This had transformed the stagnant economy of the south into a prosperous robust economy

Answer 24

Cotton

Question 25

The largest group of whites in the south were

Answer 25

Yeomen

Question 26

This man invented sewing machines

Answer 26

Elias Howe

Question 27

This group of southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of slaves they controlled

Answer 27

Plantation owners

Question 28

Famine caused people from this country to immigrate to the U.S

Answer 28

Ireland

Question 29

Enslaved people needed an extended family because they _________

Answer 29

Could be sold

Question 30

By 1860 a network of these United the mid west and the east

Answer 30

Railroad tracks

Question 31

Arriving between 1820 and 1860, the second largest group of immigrants was from

Answer 31

Germany

Question 32

These made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write

Answer 32

Slave code

Question 33

Workers formed these organizations with other workers of the same skills

Answer 33

Trade unions

Question 34

This was “ King” and the main topic of conversation in the south

Answer 34

Cotton

Question 35

This shortage would cause devastating consequences for the south during the civil war

Answer 35

Railroads

Question 36

Most enslaved people on the plantations worked as ________

Answer 36

Field hands

Question 37

This group of southerners rented the land they farmed

Answer 37

Tenant farmers

Question 38

Helped I’ll slaves

Answer 38

Plantation wives

Question 39

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 39

Eli Whitney