North vs. South
Guess Who?
Western Expansion
Change & Reform
Impact of Growth
100
Fill in the Blanks: The North's geography was __________ while the South's geography was _____________.
The North's geography was COLD WEATHER/INFERTILE SOIL while the South's geography was WARM WEATHER/FERTILE SOIL.
100
Name the preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia.
Who is NAT TURNER?
100
The belief that the United States was meant to settle all the land between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (“From sea to shining sea”).
What is MANIFEST DESTINY?
100
Name the movement to end slavery.
What is the ABOLITIONIST movement?
100
The forced removal of the Cherokee and other tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River.
What is the TRAIL OF TEARS?
200
The cash crop that replaced tobacco in the South after Eli Whitney's invention.
What is COTTON?
200
Name the president who doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803, sent Lewis & Clark on an expedition, and signed the Embargo Act that made the U.S. lose money.
Who is THOMAS JEFFERSON?
200
Name one way the U.S. acquired new western land.
What is CESSION?
Other possible answers ANNEXATION, PURCHASE.
200
This abolitionist escaped slavery but continued to return south to help others escape on the Underground Railroad
Who is HARIET TUBMAN?
200
A positive impact of the Louisiana Purchase was to gain control of this important port city and river.
What is NEW ORLEANS and the MISSISSIPPI RIVER?
300
Fill in the Blank: The North's economy was mostly _____________ while the South's economy was mostly _____________.
What is the North's economy was mostly FACTORIES/MANUFACTURING/INDUSTRIALIZATION while the South's economy was mostly FARMING/AGRICULTURE/AGRARIAN?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! (correct answer worth x2 points)
This President got started the Mexican American War claiming American had been attacked on American Soil.
Who is JAMES K. POLK?
300
The U.S. doubled in size in 1803
What is the LOUISIANA PURCHASE?
300
Name the series of religious revivals that inspired Americans to live better lives and create social reforms.
What is the SECOND GREAT AWAKENING?
300
The negative impact of the Louisiana Purchase on African Americans and Native Americans
What is more farmland increased slavery and Native Americans lost their land and their lives?
400
Fill in the Blank: The North mainly used ____________ for labor, while the South mainly used __________ for labor.
What is the North mainly used PAID YOUNG GIRLS for labor, while the South mainly used UNPAID SLAVES for labor?
400
Name the president who was a former representative of Tennessee and signed the Indian Removal Act.
Who is ANDREW JACKSON?
400
Name the former Mexican territory annexed by the U.S. in 1845, making it the 28th state.
What is the REPUBLIC OF TEXAS?
400
Name the escaped slave who opened his own newspaper called The North Star to "guide slaves home" and was a well-known public speaker.
Who is FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
400
TRIPLE JEOPARDY!!! (correct answer worth x3 points)
Name the FOUR parts of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is
1. Missouri is a slave state
2. Maine is a free state
3. Northern part of the Louisiana Territory above 36/30 line would be free states.
4. Southern part of the Louisiana Territory below 36/30 line would be slave states.
500
Name one technological invention that affected the economies of the North and the South
What is the COTTON GIN?
Other possible answers: Erie Canal, steamboat, railroads, etc.
500
Which U.S. Senator wrote the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was nicknamed the "Great Compromiser"?
Who is HENRY CLAY?
500
Name the expansion event when the U.S. gained most of its land in the southwest, including California, Arizona, and Nevada.
What is the MEXICAN CESSION?
500
Name the white abolitionist and his newspaper, which called for liberty for all slaves
Who is WILLIAM LLYOD GARRISON and what is THE LIBERATOR?
500
Name something free states got and something slave states got in the Compromise of 1850.
What is free states got California/slave trade outlawed in Washington D.C. and slave states got Fugitive Slave Laws/popular sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico?