5 Written Questions

1. tools used to produce goods or to do work
2. crop brokers who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers
3. Process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each vital part of a machine exactly the same
4. emotional Christian songs sung by slaves inthe South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves' religious beliefs
5. small landowning farmers

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. cloth
   1. factors
   2. strikes
   3. textiles
   4. folktales
2. device invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to separate cotton plants' fibers from the seeds; revolutionized the cotton industry
   1. cotton gin
   2. cotton belt
   3. factors
   4. yeomen
3. Refusals of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands.
   1. spirituals
   2. strikes
   3. yeomen
   4. textiles
4. region stretching from Georgia to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid - 1800's
   1. yeomen
   2. cotton belt
   3. cotton gin
   4. factors
5. Machine invented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires.
   1. telegraph
   2. technology
   3. folktales
   4. textiles

4 True/False Questions

1. folktales → oral stories that often provide a moral lesson

   True        False

2. mass production → Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

   True        False

3. scientific agriculture → use of scientific techniques to improve crop production

   True        False

4. trade union → Workers' organizations that try to improve pay and working conditions.

   True        False