Antebellum Period Review

What was the Northern (Northeastern and Northwestern) Economy based on?

• Farming

• Industry

• Slave Labor

• All of the possible selections

What was the first major industry to thrive in the US?

• Mining

• Oil Industry

• Cotton Growth

• Textile Industry

Who made up the workforce of the first industries?

• Men

• African Americans

• Women

• German Immigrants

What was happening to the population of northern cities during this time period?

• Losing population

• Growing population

• Population maintained (stayed the same)

• Moved to Canada

crowded apartments with poor quality of life

• Strike Houses

• Reform Convents

• Labor Unions

• Tenements

work stoppage in order to get more money

• Strike

• Home Run

• Ball

• All of the selection

Organizations of workers formed to protect the interests of its members

• Labor Unions

• Suffrage

• Tenements

• Know Nothings

Program that built infrastructure (canals, roads, etc) in the US

• Labor Unions

• Abolitionism

• Suffrage

• American System

Which was NOT a major immigrant group heading to the US in the early 1800s

• Irish

• Dutch

• German

• English

Which immigrant group was discriminated the most during the early/mid 1800s

• Irish

• Dutch

• German

• English