Unit 4 quiz 2

Question 1

National road

Answer 1

the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government.

Question 2

Market revolution

Answer 2

marked Americans moving away from self-sufficient agriculture to production of goods for sale. Entrepreneurs played a key role in driving this economic transformation.

Question 3

Putting out system

Answer 3

a widespread production system in 17th century Western. was a method of reducing labor costs associated with paying highly skilled artisans to produce goods by hiring families to perform specific tasks at a set wage.

Question 4

John deere

Answer 4

Invented steel plow

Question 5

Abolitionist

Answer 5

the movement in opposition to slavery, often demanding immediate, uncompensated emancipation of all slaves. This was generally considered radical, and there were only a few adamant abolitionists prior to the Civil War.

Question 6

underground railroad

Answer 6

used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

Question 7

Gabriel’s Rebellion

Answer 7

A plan by enslaved African American men to attack Richmond and destroy slavery in Virginia. Although thwarted, it remains one of the half-dozen most important insurrection plots in the history of North American slavery.

Question 8

Denmark Vesey

Answer 8

a slave from South Carolina who bought his freedom with $1,500 that he won in a lottery.

Question 9

The Impending Crisis of the South

Answer 9

a book written by American journalist Hinton Rowan Helper and published in 1857. The book is a polemical attack on slavery and the economic and social impact of slavery on the Southern states of the United States.

Question 10

Robert fulton

Answer 10

He was a colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He completely changed the way Americans in the early 1800’s shipped and received goods and how people traveled.

Question 11

Erie Canal

Answer 11

completed in 1825 and was 365 miles long. It allowed goods to flow between the Great Lakes and New York City. The Erie Canal attracted an influx of farmers migrating from New England, giving birth to cities like Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse along its path.

Question 12

Lowell System

Answer 12

Textile factory system of the early 19th century that employed mainly young women [age 15-35] from New England farms to increase efficiency, productivity and profits. These textile mills provided dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor.

Question 13

Treatise on Domestic Economy

Answer 13

written by catherine beecher, work was standard housekeeping guide for middle class women after market revolution

Question 14

Nat turner

Answer 14

Slave from VA that led group of slaves to kill their slaves holders abd familes. caught and executed on Nov.11, 1831. Slave states stricker control on slave population.

Question 15

gag rule

Answer 15

an act of Congress that was passed in 1836 in response to the overwhelming amount of petitions and letters about slavery. prohibited the debate or action of anti-slavery appeals.

Question 16

Black codes

Answer 16

laws passed by southern states after the Civil War denying ex-slaves the complete civil rights enjoyed by whites and intended to force blacks back to plantations and impoverished lifestyles.

Question 17

Planter elites

Answer 17

The highest class of slave owners in the south, who owned upwards of 20 slaves. 5 percent who owned 50 percent of the slaves

Question 18

Fire eaters

Answer 18

a group of pro-slavery Democrats in the antebellum South who urged the separation of Southern states into a new nation, which became the Confederate States of America

Question 19

Samuel Slater

Answer 19

Founded cotton textile industry in America.
the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and “Father of the American Factory System”

Question 20

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 20

a system of cultural beliefs governing gender roles of upper- and middle-class Americans in the 19th century.

Question 21

“Wage Slaves”

Answer 21

People whose livelihood depends on how much they make, they were given very poor working conditions and very low pay, they would work to earn what ever they could and it was like slavery because of how poorly they were treated, and how low they were paid.

Question 22

Yeoman farmers

Answer 22

small landowners (the majority of white families in the south) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves.

Question 23

Harriet Tubman

Answer 23

a black woman who, after escaping from slavery in 1849, made 19 journeys back into the South to help as many as 300 other slaves escape.

Question 24

Sold “Down the River”

Answer 24

forced migration from the upper southern states to the Deep South, lower on the Mississippi, to grow cotton. Slaves sold to plantation owners

Question 25

Hinton Helper

Answer 25

Writer of “The impending crisis of the south” was a Southern US critic of slavery during the 1850s. Only cared about non slaveholding whites.