FACTORIES
PLANTATIONS
NORTH and SOUTH
FAMOUS PEOPLE
COMPROMISES
100
Why are machines important?
Machines could make goods quickly and cheaply.
100
What are plantations?
PLantations are huge farms that used slaves.
100
Where did most people work in the North?
factories
100
Which president did the southern states did not like?
Abe Lincoln
100
What is a 'compromise'?
A compromise is an agreement between two different parties who disagree.
200
What two resources were used to power machines?
Water from streams powered the machines.
Coal from northern mines could be burned to make steam for power.
200
What plant was 'king' in the south?
cotton
200
Where do most people work in the SOUTH?
PLANTATIONS/FARMS
200
Who was Frederick Douglass?
An x-slave who created a plan to help other slaves escape. He spoke against slavery.
200
What is a FREE STATE? What is a SLAVE STATE?
FREE STATE does not allow slaves.
SLAVE STATE allows slaves.
300
Who could buy machines?
Only rich people could buy machines because they cost a lot of money.
300
Who invented the 'cotton gin'?
Eli Whitney
300
What are the four major cash crops in the South?
Cotton, tobacco, corn and rice
300
How did Harriet Tubman fight against slavery?
Harriet Tubman helped more than 300 slaves escaped to freedom.
300
What is the MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
Congress decided that Missouri would become a slave state. The next state Maine would be a free state.
400
Identify five different reasons why factory life was hard.
Factories were often dark, dirty, and unsafe.
The pay was low.
The hours were long.
Sometimes even children had to work 14 hours a day.
400
Why was the cotton gin important?
The cotton gin was a machine that removed the black seeds from cotton much faster than people working by hand. It could clean as much cotton in one day as 50 people could do by hand.
400
Identify five states in the North.
400
Who wrote the book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and describe what it was about.
Harriet Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It told about the hard life of some slaves in Kentucky.
400
What is the COMPROMISE of 1850?
California would become a free state. This made the North happy.
ALSO added a new law to make the South happy:
all runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners.
500
What effect did factories have on cities?
More and more people moved to find work, small factory towns grew into cities. New buildings went up. Streets were paved. Shops opened to sell clothes and food to busy factory workers.
500
Identify five reasons why being a slave was hard.
Slaves were not free.
They could not choose where to live or how to make a living.
Slaves could be bought and sold.
Their families could be separated.
They were not paid for their work.
They worked looooong hours.
If they were too sick to work, they were punished.
500
Identify five states in the south.
500
Who were the 'passengers' of the Underground Railroad'? Describe how the 'Underground Railroad' was used.
It was not a real railroad.
The slaves were 'passengers'
They stopped at homes to hide were called 'stations'
'Conductors' were guides who helped slaves along the way.
500
When California became a free state in 1850, how many were slave states and how many were free states. Name a free state and name a slave state.
There were 15 slave states and 16 free states.
