Chapter 11 & 12 Test Review Flashcards
__________ connected markets in New York to the Midwest.
Erie Canal
___________ developed a system of interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney
_________________ opened a textile mill that combined spinning and weaving.
Francis Cabot Lowell
By the 1850s, __________ linked many towns with cities and factories and opened new markets for the northern economy.
Railroads
The Industrial Revolution began in the _________.
textile industry
Name all parts of the Missouri Compromise.
- The Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri would be free of slavery.
- Maine would be admitted into the Union as a free state.
- Missouri would be admitted into the Union as a slave state.
- Southern plantation owners could travel anywhere to recapture runaway slaves.
What did nativist believe?
America belongs only to white Protestants born in the United States.
What allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state?
Missouri Compromise
Most southern white men were ________.
farmers
Robert Fulton is known as the inventor of the ______.
Steamboat
What are three results of the invention of the cotton gin?
- Cotton profits increased enormously.
- Cotton production increases required more slaves.
- Cotton plantations extended as far west as Texas.
Which of the following could be made with interchangeable parts (toasters, sewing needles, paintings, spoons)?
toasters
What are three reasons for immigration to the United States during this period?
- Famine in foreign countries.
- Failed revolutions in foreign countries.
- Cheap land in the United States.
Pick one invention of this time period and explain its importance to the northern economy.
Telegram - This increased the communication from the Northeast to the West, and as a result more markets were opened for the North to sell their products.
Railroads - This increased the ability for factories to transport goods throughout the country and increasing trade and its profits.
(*There are many more that you could use).
What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on population?
Population increased because people went to the cities to find jobs in the new factories being built. The machines and steam power allowed factories to be built anywhere, so cities grew rapidly.
Leaders of the Second Great Awakening favored the doctrine of free will instead of the older idea of predestination. This led many to believe that ____________.
people can make their lives and their society better.
Which person did reform work based the belief that public education is essential for democracy to work?
Horace Mann
Why was Frederick Douglass such a powerful speaker for abolitionists?
As an escaped slave, he knew what slavery was like and risked being sent back to slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
It was a network of people who secretly helped slaves reach freedom.
What is the attitude about abolition held by some northern workers?
There were against abolition because they feared that former slaves would take their jobs.
If you lived in the early 1800s, which of these people would you not meet? (a bride, a woman with 3 children, a female town mayor, a farm wife)
a female town mayor
What happened when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton went to a meeting at the international anti-slavery convention in London?
They were told women were not permitted.
What does suffrage mean?
the right to vote
What the favorite subject of American painters in the mid-1800s?
American daily lives (not European)
