unit 10

Question 1

small mills became these places, where things were made

Answer 1

factories

Question 2

this machine quickly removed seeds from cotton fiber

Answer 2

cotton gin

Question 3

what group of people were owned by wealthy plantation owners, and we’re worked from dawn to dusk?

Answer 3

Slaves

Question 4

this invention made it possible for machines to be repaired without having to replace the whole machine

Answer 4

interchangeable parts

Question 5

what are the 4 main causes of the civil war?

Answer 5

1. ) economic differences between north and south
2. ) the moral issue of slavery
3. ) expansion, sectionalism, and failure of compromise
4. ) presidential election of 1860

Question 6

what is a tariff?

Answer 6

a tax on imported goods

Question 7

define sectionalism

Answer 7

an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country

Question 8

these were built to ship goods by water by connecting lakes and rivers

Answer 8

canals

Question 9

the growth of industry and machinery is known as…?

Answer 9

the industrial revolution

Question 10

an economic system that allows competition with little government interference is known as…?

Answer 10

capitalism

Question 11

the inventions of these types of locomotives helped trade and wealth grow in the north and Midwest

Answer 11

steam power

Question 12

these made shipping faster and cheaper, and products became less expensive because of it.

Answer 12

railroads

Question 13

the invention of these improved communication, it used electric signals to transmit messages and was created by Samuel morse.

Answer 13

telegraph

Question 14

these immigrants caused population to explode in the north, some came to escape the potato famine and some to escape a failed revolution.

Answer 14

Irish and German immigrants

Question 15

this is the term used to describe plantation owners

Answer 15

planters

Question 16

these were southern laws that controlled enslaved people

Answer 16

slave codes

Question 17

this was a network of slave houses to help spaces escape from slavery

Answer 17

Underground Railroad

Question 18

this compromise said that Missouri would enter the union as a slave state, and Maine would enter as a free state. It also said that the Louisiana purchase north of 36°30’N latitude would be closed to slavery.

Answer 18

the Missouri compromise

Question 19

people who were hoping to abolish, or get rid of slavery, were called this

Answer 19

abolitionists

Question 20

this was was fought between Mexico and America over western lands

Answer 20

MEXICAN American war

Question 21

these are the lands that the U.s acquired from Mexico after the U.S. won the MEXICAN American war

Answer 21

MEXICAN cession

Question 22

a plan that would ban slavery in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico

Answer 22

Wilmot Proviso

Question 23

define popular sovereignty

Answer 23

allowing the people to decide

Question 24

a political party who’s slogan was “free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men”. they were against slavery.

Answer 24

Free-Soil party

Question 25

this compromise said that California would enter the union as a free state, and that the rest of the lands acquired from Mexico would have no limits on slavery. slave trade would be banned in Washington DC, and congress would pass a stronger fugitive slave law.

Answer 25

compromise of 1850

Question 26

this act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves

Answer 26

fugitive slave act of 1850

Question 27

this act repealed the Missouri compromise, or opened up lands to slavery that had previously been closed to it.

Answer 27

Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 28

what did it mean to be pro-slavery?

Answer 28

you supported slavery

Question 29

what did it mean to be antislavery?

Answer 29

you were against slavery

Question 30

this nickname was given to Kansas to due all of the fighting that went on there due to slavery issues

Answer 30

bleeding Kansas

Question 31

this book was written about the life of slaves on a plantation, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 31

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 32

a political group that formed, because the three groups (antislavery Whigs, antislavery democrats, free-soilers) joined together

Answer 32

Republican Party

Question 33

this was a Supreme Court case, dred Scott, an enslaved African American, sued his owners for his freedom since they moved to a region of the country where slavery was not common

Answer 33

Dred Scott Case

Question 34

these debates were between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, two candidates for Illinois governed. these debates were most frequently known for their strongly opposing opinions on slavery:

Answer 34

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Question 35

this was a raid led by an abolitionist, who armed African American slaves and tried to help them escape. the raid was defeated by locals, and the person who led it was sentenced to hang.

Answer 35

John Brown's raid on harper's ferry

Question 36

this was one of the main causes of the civil war, and the candidates were Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 36

Presidential election of 1860.

Question 37

what is a political platform?

Answer 37

a view on slavery (whether it should be or not be)

Question 38

what does it mean to secede?

Answer 38

withdrawal from the union

Question 39

what are the Confederate states of America?

Answer 39

the country that was formed after Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia seceded

Question 40

what are the 11 states that seceded due to Lincoln's presidency?

Answer 40

Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

Question 41

why did the started that seceded, secede?

Answer 41

states' rights

Question 42

this was the spark for the U.S. Civil War that took place on April 12th, 1861 when the Confederate States opened fire on this fort

Answer 42

Attack on Fort Sumter

Question 43

this man was an important american inventor who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Answer 43

Eli Whitney

Question 44

this man was from the southern region, and believed that the states has the right to govern themselves. He opposed tariffs because southerners bought imported goods. (big statesman)

Answer 44

John C. Calhoun

Question 45

a statesman from the northern region; who favored tariffs because they protected american industries from foreign competition (Big statesman)

Answer 45

Daniel Webster

Question 46

a statesman from the western region, tho proposed the American system with tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank. (big statesman)

Answer 46

Henry Clay

Question 47

name the big three statesmen

Answer 47

John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster Henry Clay

Question 48

this man created the telegraph

Answer 48

Samuel Morse

Question 49

this woman helped slaves escape slavery through the Underground Railroad

Answer 49

Harriet Tubman

Question 50

this man helped slaves escape slavery after escaping slavery himself, and he became an abolitionist and wrote a book about his life as a Slave

Answer 50

Frederick Douglass

Question 51

this person led an unsuccessful slave revolt

Answer 51

Nat Turner

Question 52

This person was a candidate in the 1860 presidential election, he was a northern democrat who supported popular sovereignty in western lands.

Answer 52

Stephen Douglas

Question 53

An enslaved African American who sued for his freedom after the family who owned him moved to a free state

Answer 53

Dred Scott

Question 54

The Supreme Court justice of the Dred Scott case

Answer 54

Roger B. Taney

Question 55

a candidate in the 1860 presidential election, who was a republican who wished to allow slavery where it existed, but ban it everywhere else.

Answer 55

Abraham Lincoln

Question 56

this person led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia

Answer 56

John Brown

Question 57

a candidate in the 1860 presidential election, who wanted to keep slavery where it existed and let it go west

Answer 57

John C. Breckinridge

Question 58

a candidate in 1860 presidential election, who wanted to continue to compromise, or had no position on slavery

Answer 58

John Bell

Question 59

who was the president of the Confederate States?

Answer 59

Jefferson Davis