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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)

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

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

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

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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)

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7. Why do you think tailors would be unhappy with Howe’s

invention? (Slide 6)

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8. What was the name of the first steam powered engine?

(Slide 7)

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9. Who won the race between the Tom Thumb and the horse?

(Side 7; Was it the engine or the horse?)

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

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

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

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13. How did factories become different in the 1840’s and

1850’s? (Slide11)

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14. When did the workday start and end for a factory worker?

(Slide 12)

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15. What is a hazard? (Slide 13)

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

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17. What did factories replace?

(Slide 14)

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18. What is an apprentice? (Slide 14)

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

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20. What is a strike? (Slide 15)

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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)

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23. What was the name of the organization women formed?

(Slide 16)

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24. What is an immigrant? (Slide 17)

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

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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)

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28. In 1850 which group had the greatest number of

immigrants? (Slide 19; English, Irish, or French)

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29. What is discrimination?

(Slide 20)

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30. How did James Forten help Africans?

(Slide 20)

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

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

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

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34. What happened to the number of slaves in the South from

1800 to 1860?

(See the graphs on slide 24)

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35. Who made up 1/3 of the South’s population?

(Slide 25)

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

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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)

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39. What were the terms of the slave codes?

(Slide 27; copy 1-4)

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4.

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40. Who was at the bottom of society? (Slide 29; see the

colored pyramid)

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41. Did the African Americans have any rights in the south?

(Slide 30; yes or no)

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

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43. What do Andrew Jackson’s words mean to you?

(Slide 32, Use your own opinion, read the balloon)

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

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

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

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47. Who freed about 300 slaves using the Underground

Railroad? (Slide 34)

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

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49. Could a woman able to vote in the 1800’s?

(Slide 36; yes or no)

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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)

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52. How many years of school did the average child in the south

receive? (Slide 37)

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53. What was the name of the first African American

University? (Slide 38)

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

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