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Mr. Pearcy's North/South Quiz Review

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Owns and works his own land with very few or no slaves.

Yeoman Farmer

Southern plantation owners enslaving more than 20 people are part of the ___________ class?

Planter Class

Freed African-Americans still faced ____________ in both the North and the South...

discrimination and potential violence

Under this labor system whole families were hired and trained to work in factories.

Rhode Island System

A group that tries to improve pay and working conditions for workers is known as?

A Labor Union

Poorly built, overcrowded apartments where many working class people lived.

Tenements

An area on land going across the south where the ecosystem supports cotton farming is called?

The Cotton Belt

What is a labor strike?

When workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands

If the demand for labor goes up, and the supply of labor remains the same, workers will get paid ________.

Who led at least 70 slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

What is the factory system that employed young, unmarried women, from local farms.

The Lowell System

Who was Sarah G. Bagley?

A millworker herself, she formed the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association to try and influence the government to investigate mill conditions and enforce a 10

Turner led a slave revolt in 1831 that killed about 60 white citizens. Also resulted in the death of more than 100 slaves that were not a part of the revolt.

If the supply of labor goes up, and the demand for labor stays the same, workers will get paid _______?

Less

What is the Middle Class

Created their own businesses or had skilled jobs. A social & economic level between the wealthy & the poor.

Name one way enslaved Africans were able to keep their heritage alive and develop a new culture.

passing down family histories / sharing customs and traditions / telling folktales and singing spirituals