Chapters 13 & 14 Study Guide
1.What did Eli Whitney’s cotton gin do?
It removed seeds from short staple cotton.
2. How did Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin impact slavery?
The increase of the cotton gin made growing cotton more profitable. As the cotton production increased due to
the cotton gin, so did the number slaves in the South increase.
3. What was a “yeoman”?
A small to middle size farm owner.
4. The area of land in the United States with high cotton production was known as
Cotton Belt
5. In what small ways would slaves often rebel against their masters and slavery?
Work as slow as possible, break tools, and pretend to be sick.
6. What event prompted many states to strengthen their slave codes?
Nat Turner’s rebellion.
7. Where will most of the cotton of the South end up going?
Textile factories of the North.
8. What led to the flood of Irish immigrants entering the United States in the mid-1840s?
A potato famine in Ireland.
9. Who started the Know-Nothing Party and what was their main purpose?
Native born Americans and they wanted to make it more difficult for immigrants to become citizens and earn
the right to vote.
10. In 1848, German people started coming to America in large numbers because?
Political Revolutions in Germany.
11. In the early 1800s, why did some social reformers want to limit the consumption of alcohol in America?
They were worried about the wide spread rise of alcoholism in America and its negative impact on the
family.
12. What did the temperance movement set out to accomplish?
The prohibition of Alcohol (at least hard liquor) in America.
13. What was the Common School Movement?
That all children in Americawould receive a free public education and taught at the same school regardless
of their background.
14. Who was the leader of the common-school movement?
Horace Mann
15. What contribution did Thomas Gallaudet make to education in the mid-1800s?
Started the first school for deaf students in America.
16. What are Push/Pull factors?
Push factors are usually negative things occurring in a country that are pushing you to leave that country.
Pull factors are the positive aspects of the country you want to move to.
17. How did William Lloyd Garrison spread the abolitionist message throughout the U.S. in the mid-1800s?
Started the first abolitionists newspaper in America: “The Liberator.”
18. Who is considered to be the most famous and daring conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
19. Who were Angelina and Sarah Grimké and how did they participate in the abolitionist movement?
Daughters of wealthy plantation owners who moved to the North to spread the abolitionists views.
20. a) What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848? b) Who were 2 women that planned
this meeting and the idea of an organized society to fight for women’s rights?
a) It was the first National organized meeting promoting Women’s rights.
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott
21. What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
A document based on the Declaration of Independence outlining the objectives and of the Women’s rights
movement and listing the complaints that women had against society.
22. Who started the Abolitionist newspaper the “North Star” and became the most famous Abolitionist speaker in
the country? Frederick Douglass
23. Where did Irish immigrants tend to settle?In urban areas. In the port city of their arrival.
24. What type of jobs did the Irish immigrants mostly take in America?Factory jobs or railroad jobs.
25. What type of jobs did the German immigrants mostly take?
Owned their own farms or small businesses.
26. Where did the German immigrants tend to live and settle?
The rural areas of the state in which they arrived.
27. Who became known for her strong organizational skills within the women’s rights movement?
Susan B. Anthony