Lesson 21 - The Worlds of North and South

A person who favors an agricultural (farming) way of life-

• industrialist

• agrarian

• transcendentalist

• reformer

Change in economies brought about by the use of machines to do the work formerly done by hand-

• Industrial Revolution

• Cotton Gin

• Deforestation

• Agrarian Revolution

A person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial business-

• agrarian

• transcendentalist

• reformer

• industrialist

A large area of privately owned land where crops are grown by enslaved people-

• estate

• plantation

• rural land

• colony

The clearing away of forests-

• deforestation

• remotion

• husking

• baring

A hand operated machine that cleans seeds and unwanted materials from cotton-

• reaper

• plow

• cotton gin

• excavator

The economy in the South was based on-

• mining

• agriculture

• shipbuilding

• banking

Which of these best describes the Industrial Revolution?

• a conflict between factory owners in cities

• a change from privately owned businesses to government owned

• a decrease in immigrant labor and an increase in slave labor

• a shift from handmade to machine made goods

The geography of the South supported the growing of cash crops in all of these ways EXCEPT-

• it had wide, fertile coastal plains

• it had access to seaport to export goods

• it had plentiful rainfall and long growing seasons

• it had fast moving rivers as a source of power

How did the invention of the cotton gin impact the South?

• cotton became the south's most important crop

• cotton exports declined

• cotton farmers no longer needed slaves

• cotton mills moved to the South