What am i who am i review - march 2014

WHAT AM I?WHO AM I?

BENCHMARK REVIEW

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What Am I?

• Alabama• Arkansas• Florida• Georgia• Louisiana• Mississippi• North Carolina

• South Carolina• Tennessee• Texas• Virginia

I Am…

• Slave States• The South• The Confederate States

of America

What Am I?

• Occurred in 1803• Bought from France• Happened when Thomas Jefferson was

President• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored

it

I Am…

The Louisiana Purchase

What Am I?

• One of the 5 territories acquired by the U.S.• Acquired with the Onis-Adams Treaty of 1819• Acquired it from Spain

I Am…

• Florida

What Am I?

• There are four• Slave states• Remained in the Union

I Am…

• Border States

What Am I?• California• Connecticut• Illinois• Indiana• Iowa• Kansas• Maine• Massachusetts• Michigan• Minnesota

• New Hampshire• New York• New Jersey• Ohio• Oregon• Pennsylvania• Rhode Island• Vermont• West Virginia• Wisconsin

I Am…

• North• Free states• Union

What Am I?• Led by strong women who began their

campaign before the Civil War and continued after the war ended

• Declared “all men and women were created equal”

• Believed women were denied basic rights such as the right to vote, educational opportunities, equal opportunities in business, and limited in rights to own property

I Am…

• The Suffrage Movement

What Am I?

• Leaders included both men and women• Demanded immediate freeing of slaves• Felt slavery was morally wrong, cruel,

inhumane, and a violation of democracy

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• Abolitionist Movement

What Am I?

• One of the new territories gained by the U.S. after 1801

• Became an independent republic

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• Texas

What Am I?• Time period • Many people migrated during this time• The Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements

began• The U.S. acquired 5 new territories during this

time frame

I Am…

• Westward Expansion Era

What Am I?• Increased the production of cotton• Increased the need for slave labor• Invented by Eli Whitney

I Am…

• Cotton gin

What Am I?

• Provided faster river transportation• Connected Southern farms and plantations to

Northern industries• Invented by Robert Fulton

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• Steamboat

What Am I?

• One of the 5 territories added to the U.S. after 1801

• Located in the northwest • Divided between the U.S. and Great Britain

I Am…

• Oregon Territory

What Am I?

• Specific time period• War• 1861-1865• Disagreements over cultural issues,

constitutional issues, and economic issues• Country was divided in two• Disagreements over slavery

I Am…

• The Civil War

What Am I?

• Increased the productivity of the American farmer

• Invented by Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson

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• The reaper

What Am I?

• One of the 5 territories added to the U.S. after 1801

• Gained this territory as a result of a war with Mexico

I Am…• California and the Southwest Territory

What Am I?

• Invention• Provided faster land transportation

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• Steam locomotive

What Am I?

• Overland trails• Allowed people to migrate westward

I Am…

• Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

What Am I?

• Many people flocked to California• Earned the nickname “49ers”• In search of a precious metal

I Am…

• California Gold Rush

Who Am I?

• I was an abolitionist leader• I was an escaped slave• I was the most famous conductor of the

Underground Railroad

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• Harriet Tubman

Who Am I?

• I was an inventor• My invention connected Southern farms and

plantations to Northern industries• My invention provided faster river

transportation• I invented the steamboat

I Am…

• Robert Fulton

Who Am I?

• I was an inventor• My invention increased cotton production• My invention also increased the need for slave

labor

I Am…

• Eli Whitney

Who Am I?

• I was a leader during the Civil War• I supported secession• I was the President of the Confederate States

of America

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• Jefferson Davis

Who Am I?

• I was an abolitionist leader• I printed a newspaper• I was one of the first white abolitionists

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• William Lloyd Garrison

Who Are We?

• We set off on a two year trek to explore land recently acquired by the United States

• We explored the territory that doubled the size of the United States

• Thomas Jefferson sent us on our mission

We Are…

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Who Am I?

• I was an abolitionist leader• I was an escaped slave• I was a great public speaker• I printed a newspaper called The North

Star

I Am…

• Frederick Douglass

Who Are We?

• We are known for an invention• One of us was a slave• Our invention increased the productivity of

the American farmer• Our invention was the reaper

We Are…

• Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson (no picture found)

Who Are We?

• We believed women were deprived of their basic rights

• We worked to earn women the right to vote• We were important leaders of the Suffrage

Movement

We Are…

• Isabel Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who Am I?

• I opposed the spread of slavery• I issued the Emancipation Proclamation• I was determined to preserve the Union-even

if I had to use force• I believed the United States was one nation,

not a collection of independent states• I wrote the Gettysburg Address• I was the 16th president of the United States

I Am…

• Abraham Lincoln