History Soars at Pheonix  

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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