Chapter 14 North and South

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Chapter 14 North and South Powerpoint Questions

Instructions: Use the Powerpoint presentation, American Nation textbook pages 406-431, and your class notes to answer these questions.

1. Who is pictured on slide 1? (Slide 1) ______

2. What was the name of the South’s major crop? (Slide 2) ______

3. What did new inventions trigger? (Slide 2) ______

4. What invention is pictured on slide 3 (Slide 3) ______

5. What invention did Cyrus McCormick manufacture? (Slide 4)

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6. What are the two most important inventions that shaped the early 19th century? (Slide 5) ______

7. Why do you think tailors would be unhappy with Howe’s invention? (Slide 6) ______

8. What was the name of the first steam powered engine? (Slide 7) ______

9. Who won the race between the Tom Thumb and the horse? (Side 7; Was it the engine or the horse?) ______

10. What was a clipper ship? (Slide 9)

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11. What records did the clipper ship break? (Slide 9) ______

12. What do you think a telegraph is? (Slide 10) ______

13. How did factories become different in the 1840’s and 1850’s? (Slide11) ______

14. When did the workday start and end for a factory worker? (Slide 12) ______

15. What is a hazard? (Slide 13) ______

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16. What commonly happened in factories? (Slide 13) ______

17. What did factories replace? (Slide 14) ______

18. What is an apprentice? (Slide 14) ______

19. What is a trade union? (Slide 15) ______

20. What is a strike? (Slide 15) ______

21. Were most of the unskilled workers, women or men? (Slide 16)

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22. Did women earn more or less money than men? (Slide 16) ______

23. What was the name of the organization women formed? (Slide 16) ______

24. What is an immigrant? (Slide 17) ______

25. Why did people immigrate to the United States? (Slide 17) ______

26. Why did the Irish people come to America? (Slide 18) ______

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27. Why did the German people come to America? (Slide 18) ______

28. In 1850 which group had the greatest number of immigrants? (Slide 19; English, Irish, or French) ______

29. What is discrimination? (Slide 20) ______

30. How did James Forten help Africans? (Slide 20) ______

31. Define the term, sectionalism. (Slide 22) ______

32. Who invented the cotton gin? (Slide 23)

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33. How did the cotton gin help planters? (Slide 23) ______

34. What happened to the number of slaves in the South from 1800 to 1860? (See the graphs on slide 24) ______

35. Who made up 1/3 of the South’s population? (Slide 25) ______

36. Who were known as the “cottonocracy?” (Slide 25) ______

37. What do you think is an extended family? (Slide 25, Use your own opinion) ______

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38. Who is pictured on slide 26? (Slide 26) ______

39. What were the terms of the slave codes? (Slide 27; copy 1-4) 1. ______

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40. Who was at the bottom of society? (Slide 29; see the colored pyramid) ______

41. Did the African Americans have any rights in the south? (Slide 30; yes or no) ______

42. What did Nat Turner do to protest slavery? (Slide 31) ______

43. What do Andrew Jackson’s words mean to you? (Slide 32, Use your own opinion, read the balloon) ______

44. Define the term, self-sufficient. (Slide 25) ______

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45. Who was the best known abolitionist? (Slide 33) ______

46. What was the Underground Railroad? (Slide 34) ______

47. Who freed about 300 slaves using the Underground Railroad? (Slide 34) ______

48. What did the antislavery movement help? (Slide 36) ______

49. Could a woman able to vote in the 1800’s? (Slide 36; yes or no) ______

50. Name two women that were determined to fight for women’s rights? (Slide 36)

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51. What did Horace Mann do? (Slide 37) ______

52. How many years of school did the average child in the south receive? (Slide 37) ______

53. What was the name of the first African American University? (Slide 38) ______

54. Who wrote the novel, Moby Dick? (Slide 39)

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