Chapter 11 (Lesson 2-3)

Question 1

What are steamboats?

Answer 1

Moved by steam engines, boats that were fast for travel on rivers.

Question 2

What are Yankee Clippers?

Answer 2

Were made for ocean travel and were the fastest in the world for a short time.

Question 3

What are railroads?

Answer 3

Were horse drawn in the beginning until 1830 when Peter Cooper made the first steam Locomotive.

Question 4

Why did Railroads better for transportation?

Answer 4

Because they had straight lines. They didn’t have to go only on water.

Question 5

Who was Elias Howe?

Answer 5

Isaac Singer created a sewing machine

Question 6

Who was Samuel F.B Morse?

Answer 6

Created the Morse Code.

Question 7

Why do we like the Germans?

Answer 7

We can relate to them overthrowing their government but failing and then fled.

Question 8

Why do we hate the Irish?

Answer 8

They were Roman Catholics and a potato famine caused people to go hungry and starve (The Great Hunger/Great Potato Famine) so they immigrated to the United States.

Question 9

Where did most Irish work?

Answer 9

On railroads

Question 10

Who are Nativists and what did they want?

Answer 10

People who wanted to preserve America for white protestants. They became upset at the growing foreign population. (Someone who is Native to America)

Question 11

What party did NYC create?

Answer 11

A secret society that transforms to Know Nothing Party

Question 12

What percent of votes does the Know Nothing Party Get?

Answer 12

21%

The party soon splits due to the issue of slavery

Question 13

How were African Americans treated in the North?

Answer 13

They were discriminated against

Thought to be inferior

Question 14

What happened to slavery in the South?

Answer 14

It was a staple in the south (Cotton=Slavery)

Question 15

Who was Eli Whitney?

Answer 15

Created a Cotton Gin

Question 16

What is a cotton gin?

Answer 16

A machine that removes cotton seeds from the cotton faster. Increased the cotton trade.

Question 17

What is discrimination?

Answer 17

Not allowing someone to have the same as others based on certain characterizations of that person.

Question 18

What was life for African American in the South?

Answer 18

No public education
Few jobs except menial ones
Many were captured and sold into slavery

Question 19

How was life like in the South for slaves?

Answer 19

Some slave owners treated their slaves well and looked at the, as an investment/family
Some slave owners treated slaves bad through beating, poor treatment, and murder

Question 20

How did slave pass messages?

Answer 20

They sang spiritual songs to bring joy and pass messages.

Question 21

How did some slaves resist?

Answer 21

They broke tools or didn’t work hard.

Question 22

What did Nat Turner do?

Answer 22

Had a dream to kill whites. He killed 60 people. The counterattack against slaves and free blacks was even worse.

Question 23

When did all states abolish slave?

Answer 23

1804

Question 24

What did congress say about slaves in Ohio?

Answer 24

Ruled no slavery would allowed in Ohio when it was petitioning to be a state.

Question 25

What was the Abolitionist Groups?

Answer 25

Groups who looked to abolish slavery nationally. American Colonization Society- Looked to relocate to Liberia in Africa

Question 26

Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

Answer 26

Wrote the newspaper “The Liberator”. He was an abolitionist newspaper

Question 27

Who was Fredrick Douglass?

Answer 27

A freed slave who wrote the newspaper “The North Star”. His book wrote about the horrors of slavery.

Question 28

What were Underground Railroads?

Answer 28

Where white/black people worked together to help escaped slaves get to the north.

Question 29

Who was Black Moses?

Answer 29

An escaped slave, helped more than 300 people escape to the north.

Question 30

What did Conductors do?

Answer 30

Would help slaves escape and would have markings on doors or carpets hanging so that slaves knew the safe houses from threats. (50,000 slaves believe to have been freed)