History Soars at Pheonix
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North and South Powerpoint 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?
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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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