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America Pageant Ch16
American Pageant Ed.13, Chapters 16, Quarter 2 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the cotton industry benefit the North? | 1/2 of exports were cotton after 1840 and Northerners received money to package and ship the products, and also made money from the Southerners buying their manufactured goods. |
| How did the U.S. cotton industry affect Great Britain? | 1/5 of people in GB employed in sewing, and 75% of their cotton came from the U.S. |
| What were the cons of the cotton industry? | Growing nothing but cotton took up land, was bad for the soil, made America partially dependent on GB's economy, prevented immigrants from going South, and the rift between whites and blacks increases. |
| Sir Walter Scott and "Ivanhoe" | The Ivanhoe book paints a picture for Southerners of slavery as a feudal society, with the owners as kings and queens, and the slaves as their subjects. |
| Dollar grubbing | WHat the South accused the north of, because they wasted time making money, while the north, whose money was "made by their slaves" had time to get educated and improve the common good |
| American Colonization Society | Believed slaves should be transported back to Africa |
| Reverend Lovejoy | had his printing press destroyed and was killed by a mob for speaking out against catholic women as masters |
| Old Immigrants | Immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and British Isles that came from 1840-1860 |
| New Immigrants | Immigrants from Italy and Russia that come from 1880-1914 |
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