Critical Thinking Skills
Why Study History
Slavery
King Cotton
Northern Manufacturing
100
Process of mentally stepping into the past to consider an event or situation as people of the time would have considered it.
What is Historical Imagination
100
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and to understand that person.
What is Empathy
100
Prior to the Civil War what was causing the economy in the south to boom?
What is Cotton
100
This invention revelotionized how cotton was seperated from the seed.
What is The Cotton Gin
100
Cotton became popular in the south which cause the north to become this
What is Industrialized
200
To focus on the similarities and differences
What is Comparing
200
History teaches us to avoid this....
What is Errors of the past
200
It took a slave this amount of time to process one pound of cotton.
What is One Day
200
They made up 85% of the workforce during the cotton boom in the south.
What is Slaves
200
This group of people began to become "politicized" during the rise of northern manufacturing.
What is Women
300
To focus on the differences.
What is Contrasting
300
History is from the Greek word that means to
What is Investigate
300
This was the average price for a male slave during the height of the slave trade.
What is $1,000.00
300
This percentage of the world's cotton was produced by the south in 1850.
What is 3/4
300
The power loom lead to this new technology.
What is Computer
400
Indentifying an issue, deciding what you think about it, and persuasively your position.
What is Taking a Stand
400
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to .......
What is Repeat It
400
80% of slaves could not do this during slavery.
What is Read and Write
400
There are more of these in Natchez, Mississippi than anywhere in the world.
What is Millionaire
400
Women and former slaves benefited from this Industry
What is Whaling
500
Forming a possible explanation for an event, a situation, or a problem.
What is Hypothesizing
500
History is not a _____________ and it cannot be rigorously tested and proved.
What is Science
500
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
500
Farmers wanted to expand in this direction as the demand for cotton was great.
What is West
500
He developed the cotton gin
What is Eli Whitney
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