Chapter 8 test

Question 1

Middle Class

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Social class that arose during the early 1800’s as a result of the market revolution

Question 2

Middle-class family roles included

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Work outside the house for men and childcare duties for women

Question 3

Shopkeepers

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Members of the American’s new middle class

Question 4

The market revolution lead to three things

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1. The rise of the middle class
2. An increased demand for cotton
3. The rise of factories

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National Trades Union

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Organization that campaigned for labor reform

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Factory workers responded to lower wages and faster production by

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Forming labor unions

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Strike

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Tactic used by workers to press for reforms

Question 8

A strike consists of

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A refusal to work until demands are met

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Labor unions

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Organizations formed by factory workers to improve their working conditions

Question 10

Irish immigrants

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People who came to the U.S. during the 1800’s because famine caused by a disease to a potato crop

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Germany and Ireland

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Countries from which most immigrants came in the mid-1800’s

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Nativists responded to increased Irish and German immigration with

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Violence and demands for limits on immigrant’s rights

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The Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

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Secret society of nativists that lobbied for a 21 year wait for naturalization of immigrants

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Nativists thought

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Germans were clannish

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Know-Nothing

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Party formed by nativists

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With reapers and other new machines

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farm families could cultivate more land with less labor

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Cotton gin

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Invention that helped meet increased demand for cotton

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Cotton

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Agricultural product dominated the economy of the Lower South

Question 19

During the mid 1800s the Cotton Kingdom

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Expanded with the growing market

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The invention of new weaving machines affected the south by

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Increasing the need for slave labor

Question 21

The three following were factors in creating the Cotton Kingdom

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1. Booming markets for cotton
2. The cotton gin
3. Newly cultivated lands

Question 22

Most wealthy southerners invested in

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Purchasing more land and slaves

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American Colonization Society

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Organization established to send African Americans “back” to Africa

Question 24

Three pro-slavery arguments

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1. The relationship between master and slave is a devoted one
2. A slave has a more secure life than a northern factory worker does
3. Slavery is essential to a sound southern economy

Question 25

Planters

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Members of the South’s small but dominant social class

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Yeoman farmers

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Small landowners who made up the majority of southern whites

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Free African Americans in the south encountered

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Many restrictions

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Overseers

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Plantation supervisors who managed the slaves

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Gang Labor

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Plantation system in which groups of slaves were assigned to do specialized jobs such as plowing or hoeing

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Three statements about slave labor

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1. Most slaves worked in agriculture
2. Some slave worked in skilled crafts
3. Some slaves worked in manufacturing

Question 31

Southern slaves laws rendered

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Slaves legally powerless

Question 32

Nat Turner

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Slave who led a short-lived, violent uprising in Virginia

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Nat Turner

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Led slave uprisings that resulted in passage of stricter slave codes

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The Underground Railroad and its conductors

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Helped slaves escape

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Harriet Tubman

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Conductor with the Underground Railroad

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African Americans resisted slavery by doing all of the following

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1. Trying to escape
2. Slowing their work pace
3. Openly rebelling

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Spirituals

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Kind of songs that allowed African American slaves to express their deep longing for freedom

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Enslaved African Americans coped with their situation by

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Using humor, music, and folktales to create hope