Road to the Civil War- VOCAB

Question 1

Who developed the Rhode Island System?

Answer 1

Samuel Slater

Question 2

When was the Rhode Island system developed?

Answer 2

mid- 1800s

Question 3

What did the Rhode Island system do?

Answer 3

Hired whole families as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks.

Question 4

What area did the Cotton Belt stretch?

Answer 4

The Cotton Belt stretched from S. Carolina to east Texas.

Question 5

What was special about the Cotton Belt?

Answer 5

It was where most US cotton was produced during the mid-1800s.

Question 6

Who proposed the Missouri compromise?

Answer 6

Henry Clay

Question 7

What did the Missouri Compromise do?

Answer 7

Allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state and outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36 30 degrees latitude.

Question 8

Was Missouri a slave state or a free state in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 8

Slave state

Question 9

Was Maine a slave state or a free state in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 9

Free state

Question 10

The Missouri Compromise outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of ________ latitude.

Answer 10

36 30

Question 11

What is sectionalism?

Answer 11

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole.

Question 12

What did the Fugitive Slave Acts do? (there’s 3)

Answer 12

Made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders.

Question 13

Who developed Morse code?

Answer 13

Alfred Lewis Vall

Question 14

What was Morse code?

Answer 14

A system for the telegraph that used a certain combination of dots and dashed to represent each letter of the alphabet.

Question 15

In the Lincoln-Douglas debate, was Abraham Lincoln a republican or democrat?

Answer 15

Republican

Question 16

In the Lincoln-Douglas debate, was Stephen Douglas a democrat or republican?

Answer 16

Democrat

Question 17

When was the Lincoln-Doughlas debate?

Answer 17

1858

Question 18

Where were the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Answer 18

The US senate campaign in Illinois

Question 19

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

Answer 19

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery.

Question 20

When did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Answer 20

mid-1700s

Question 21

What was the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 21

A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production

Question 22

What type of people did the Lowell System employ?

Answer 22

Young, unmarried women

Question 23

What was the Lowell System?

Answer 23

The use of water powered textile mills ran by certain employed ppl

Question 24

What was the Underground Railroad?

Answer 24

A network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the north by providing transportation and hiding places.