Immigration, Urban Growth and the Antebellum South

What accelerated in growth dramatically from 140 to 1860?

• Cities 
• Economy 
• Immigration 
• All of these

What were the overwhelming majority of immigrants that came to the united States from 1840 to 1860? 

• French and British 
• Spanish and German 
• German and Irish 
• Irish and French 

What was also on the rise in the early 1800s?

• The belief that Immigrants were important to the economy and were needed to make the country stronger 
• The belief that Immigrants were racially inferior, they corrupted politics, stealing jobs and that they immigrant catholics wanted to take over America
• The belief that only the immigrants should work in factories because the rest of society was too good for that kind of work 
• None of these

By 1840 what became the primary form of transportation?

• Railroads
• Steam Boats 
• Horse draw carriages 
• cars

What did railroads do for the relationship between North and South?

• Made it better because now they could get places faster
• Made it worse because railroads were not being built out into the deep south 
• Did not effect it much the railroads were a helpful addition but it did not fix the wedge that was already there 
• None of these

What immigrant group was discriminated against the most in this period?

• Germans 
• Irish
• Scotish
• Italian

How did the innovation of the factory hurt the relationship between North and south?

• Manufacturing ,moved from being produced in houses and workshops to large factories 
• Factories began to use water powered machines that allowed them to bring everything under a single roof and the south was unable to do this 
• Left the south with very little manufacturing options and resentment towards the innovations 
• All of these 

How were immigrants taken advantage of in factories?

• Poor working conditions 
• Lower wages 
• Paid them in piece rate instead of hourly
• All of these

The Northwest increased production by adopting  what new agricultural techniques? 

• Varieties of Wheat ans imported better breeds of animals 
• Steel Plow
• Automatic Reaper 
• All of these

What innovation caused cotton to be a crop that could be grown all over the south?

• The Cotton Gin
• Invention of Short Staple Cotton and the Cotton Gin
• The Steel Plow
• The Automatic Reaper