NAME: _________________________ U.S. History
PERIOD: ______
DATE: ________
NORTH – SOUTH (Chapter 12 / 13) STUDY GUIDE
Significant People:
1.
_____________________________- Invented the Cotton Gin and interchangeable parts for guns.
2. _____________________________ -Developed the 1st steam boat.
3. _____________________________- Designed the mechanical reaper for harvesting wheat.
4. _____________________________-Invented the steel-bladed plow.
5. _____________________________-Invented the telegraph and a code system used with it.
6. _____________________________ -Leader of a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831.
7. _____________________________-Organized a union for women working in textile mills.
8. _____________________________ -Memorized design of British textile machines and began 1st mill in Rhode Island.
9. _____________________________-Invented the first steam locomotive.
Important Terms:
10. Union –
11. Strike –
12. Discrimination –
13. Prejudice –
14. Yeomen –
15. “Know Nothings” –
16. “King Cotton “ –
17. Slave codes –
18. Planters –
19. Spirituals –
20. Folktales –
NAME: _______________________________
PERIOD: ______
DATE: ____________
Critical Thinking Questions:
21. List two positive effects and two negative effects of the Cotton ‘boom’ on the South:
22. Explain the difference between domestic slaves, skilled workers, and field hands in the Slave System:
23. List 4 states considered part of the ‘Upper South’:
24. List 4 states considered part of the ‘Deep South’:
25. Explain the hardships that immigrants faced when they arrived in America:
26. Did most slave owners treat their slaves very harshly all the time? Why or why not?
27. Did all White Southerners own a large number of slaves? Why or why not?
28. Why did the South not industrialize like the North did?
29. From what two countries did the first wave of immigrants come from? Why did they leave their home country?
Where in the United States did each settle?
30. On the chart below, list several differences between the North and the South that we have covered in class:
NORTH
SOUTH