Study Guide

Question 1

samuel slater

Answer 1

secretly bought the design for the spinning jenny from Great Britain to America

Question 2

robert fulton

Answer 2

helped invent the steamboat engine

Question 3

samuel f. b. morse

Answer 3

invented morse code

Question 4

john deere

Answer 4

invented mechanical plow

Question 5

restriction of interest to a narrow sphere

Answer 5

define sectionalism

Question 6

3 parts of the Missouri Compromise

Answer 6

• MO admitted slave
• Maine admitted free
• 36 30 line

Question 7

leland stanford

Answer 7

business tycoon and founder of Stanford University/ co-founder of the central pacific railroad

Question 8

transatlantic cable

Answer 8

an undersea cable running under the atlantic ocean used for telegraph communications

Question 9

define industrial revolution

Answer 9

a change from making things by hand to making them in factories

Question 10

workingman’s party

Answer 10

an american labor organization led by denis kearney

Question 11

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course without interfering

Answer 11

laissez faire

Question 12

Gibbons vs. Ogden

Answer 12

2 steamboat operators fought over shipping rights on the Hudson River

Question 13

desribe lowell factory and lowell girls

Answer 13

• factory spun cotton into yarn
• girls worked 12 hrs. a day
• girls came for good wages 2-4 dollars
• girls usually worked until they married

Question 14

eli whitney

Answer 14

invented the cotton gin

Question 15

list 4 reasons factories began in the New England states

Answer 15

1. fast-moving rivers
2. ships and access to the ocean
3. willing labor force
4. helped out families who needed work

Question 16

how much of the south’s population in 1840 was enslaved African-Americans

Answer 16

1/3

Question 17

what 5 problems faced free blacks in the south

Answer 17

1. gained freedom = blacks leave
2. no vote no education
3. employers refuse to hire them
4. captured and sold into slavery

Question 18

List the 6 effects not Turner’s rebellion

Answer 18

1. spread fear in the south
2. legislators passed harsh laws
3. slaves could not hold religious services
4. grip of slavery grew tighter
5. tension over slavery increased
6. whites killed more than 200 African-Americans in revenge

Question 19

3 thanks Monroe stated in the Monroe doctrine

Answer 19

1. US regard only interference as direct threat
2. US stay out of European wars
3. US no interfere with wxisting colonies