CPMS 8thGrade Unit 7 Antebellum Period

Question 1

Invention by Samuel Morse enabled people to communicate over long distances

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Telegraph

Question 2

Series of religous revivals in the early 1800's that inspired other reform movements

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Second Great Awakening

Question 3

Goal of the Abolition movement

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End slavery

Question 4

Suicide, running away, slow work, rebellion, and defiance of authority were...

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Ways slaves resisted slavery

Question 5

Group of American, Antebellum artists who painted scenes featuring natural beauty in their art

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Hudson River School

Question 6

The two largest immigrant groups to the U.S. in the 1840's were the

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Irish and German

Question 7

This reformer lead the mental hospital and prison reform movement

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Dorthea Dix

Question 8

How did Frederick Douglass feel about the attitudes of the people in the North?

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They were more prejudiced and racist than in the South

Question 9

What is a "nativist"

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American born citizen who oposed immigration in the 1800's

Question 10

White southerners who were uneducated, unskilled, landless with no political or social power

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Poor whites

Question 11

As a result of the South's one product economy, what did the region need the North to provide?

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food crops, manufactured goods, banking & shipping

Question 12

This method was used to produce stronger steel more easily

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Bessamer steel process

Question 13

What is a turnpike?

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A privately owned road where people pay tolls to use them

Question 14

Launched the first successful steamboat, the Clermont on the Hudson River

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Robert Fulton

Question 15

Industry in the North was impacted by canals and railroads because

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goods and people could be moved faster

Question 16

This invention allowed cotton fibers to be cleaned quickly and made cotton cloth affordable

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Cotton gin

Question 17

How did the invention of interchangeable parts to make things change the production of goods?

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Large quantities of goods produced quickly, at lower cost

Question 18

This machine allowed cloth to be produced quickly in factories

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Moody power loom

Question 19

Reform movement that wanted to outlaw the production, sale & consumption of alcohol in the U.S.

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Temperance

Question 20

Fast moving, sailing ships that moved goods quickly to and from Asia in the 1800's

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Clipper Ships

Question 21

Farms on the Central Plains could reach cities in the East by water with the building of the...

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Erie Canal

Question 22

This invention allowed ships to move upstream on rivers or across oceans without wind power

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steam boats/ships

Question 23

Americans in 1800's who focused on relationship between man & nature, following your conscience

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Trancendentalists

Question 24

Male abolitionist who started the New England Anti-Slavery Society/newspaper the Liberator

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William Lloyd Garrison

Question 25

Word that means "the right to vote"

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Sufferage

Question 26

Former slave from Maryland, abolition leader, underground railroad, started paper 'North Star"

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Frederick Douglass

Question 27

John Deere's invention allowed American farmers to break up the soil and plant wheat

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Steel plow

Question 28

What is a canal?

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A man made waterway

Question 29

The majority (most) slaves in the South worked on farms/plantations as

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Field hands

Question 30

Diseases, natural disasters and few immigrants from Europe

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The reason the South had a smaller population

Question 31

Sisters from S. Carolina for abolition & women's rights,wrote American Slavery As It Is in 1839

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke

Question 32

This invention by Cyrus McCormick could harvest and separate grain quickly

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Mechanical reaper

Question 33

Daughter of a white, Quaker abolitionist, called for equal pay,college training & right to vote

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Susan B. Anthony

Question 34

Tiny group in Antebellum South who owned large plantations with slaves, were wealthy & powerful

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Planters (plantation owners)

Question 35

What is a spiritual?

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A religious song that could have hints for runaway slaves

Question 36

Elias Howe invented this machine that could stitch clothing and shoes together quickly

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Sewing machine

Question 37

Transcendentalist known for civil disobedience and famous writings such as "Walden"

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Henry David Thoreau

Question 38

In 1860, the average slave cost $1800. In 2016 dollars, what is the equivalent price today?

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$53,000

Question 39

Problems faced by Antebellum factory workers

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Low wages, hot factories, long hours, dirty conditions

Question 40

What was a purpose for a trade (labor) union?

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To organize workers for better pay/working conditions

Question 41

Person who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

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Eli Whitney

Question 42

Early photographers used this to capture images

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Daguereotype camera

Question 43

If you were a slave "sold down the river" you were

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Part of the slave trade between the Upper South & Deep South

Question 44

Naturalist who is famous for his drawings of American birds and wildlife

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John James Audubon

Question 45

Invention most responsible for the growth of indusry and transportation during the Antebellum

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steam power

Question 46

Elements of the free enterprise system

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low taxes, profit, private property & competition

Question 47

Female abolitionist who escaped slavery, gave speeches and supported women's rights

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Sojourner Truth

Question 48

Poor Irish immigrants moved to the United States during the 1840's to escape the

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potato famine

Question 49

She organized the Women's Rights movement and the Seneca Falls Convention

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 50

Transcendentalist who wrote the essay "Nature" and stressed individualism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 51

This crop became "king" in the South and changed its economy

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Cotton

Question 52

This economic event changed the way people worked & the way goods were made and transported

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Industrial Revolution

Question 53

"Common people" of the South who were white, non-slave holding, farmers who owned 50-200 acres

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Plain folk farmers

Question 54

The economic idea that supports individuals/businesses owning property & deciding how to use it

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Capitalism

Question 55

Industrialization, War of 1812, better transportation and cheap labor led to an increase in

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factories

Question 56

This machine could spin many threads at once

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Spinning Jenny

Question 57

Someone who tries to change society for the better

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Reformer

Question 58

An increase in the population growth of Northern cities in the 1800's is because

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Increase in factory jobs and immigration

Question 59

Invention on rails that made land transportation faster, cheaper and allowed settlement in west

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Steam locomotive

CPMS 8thGrade Unit 7 Antebellum Period

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CPMS 8thGrade Unit 7 Antebellum Period

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