Antebellum America Test Review #2

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways railroads influenced the United States?

• Cities grew up along the railroads.

• shortened travel time and sped up communication

• hurt the coal and steel industries

• tied communities and cities together

Which of the following best describes the telegraph?

• a fast mail system that could get mail across the country in three days

• a device that used wires to allow people to verbally communicate with each other

• a device that used radio waves to send messages between wireless devices over long distances

• a device that used electrical pulses to send messages through wires over long distances

a machine that separated the cotton seeds from the cotton fibers

• cotton gin

• telegraph

• power loom

• steel plow

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Frederick Douglass

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Francis Cabot Lowell

What influence did the cotton gin have on slavery?

• weakened slavery

• ended slavery within a few years

• increased demand for slavery and strengthened it

• had no influence on slavery

What was Southern society based on during the Antebellum Period?

• slavery

• agriculture

• factories

• fishing

Select the option that lists the four classes of Southern society in the correct order according to how much respect and power they had.

• 1. Yeomen

  2. Planters

  3. Free African-Americans

  4. Slaves

• 1. Planters

  2. Yeomen

  3. Slaves

  4. Free African-Americans

• 1. Slaves

  2. Free African-Americans

  3. Yeomen

  4. Planters

• 1. Planters

  2. Yeomen

  3. Free African-Americans

  4. Slaves

Although the people of this class were free from slavery and worked for money on farms, they faced continual poor treatment and discrimination from whites. Most faced restrictions on what they were allowed to do.

• Slaves

• Free African-Americans

• Yeomen

• Planters

This class of people was made up of farmers with small farms and few or no slaves. It made up the largest social class in the South.

• Yeomen

• Planters

• Free African-Americans

• Slaves

This class of people was made up of rich farmers with large farms and 20 or more slaves. They were powerful in politics and business, but made up less than 1/3 of the Southern population.

• Free African-Americans

• Yeomen

• Planters

• Slaves