CHAPTER 5
What is a convention?
A gathering of people.
What is a turnpike?
A road that people pay to travel on.
What is a representative?
A person who speaks for others.
What did Morse invent?
The telegraph.
What did Singer invent?
Sewing machine
What is a pioneer?
A person who travels into territory to settle on the frontier.
What town in NY had Salt as its industry?
Syracuse
What is a frontier?
Wild land at the edge of a settled area.
What town in NY had flour as its industry?
Rochester
How did the Industrial Revolution help cities grow in New York?
New inventions led to factories.
What is a primary source?
Firsthand piece of evidence
What did Montague invent?
Detachable shirt collar.
Which of the following was founded as a mill town?
Kingston
Buffalo
Rochester
Albany
Rochester
What town in NY had pencils as its industry?
Ticonderoga
What is the effect if the cause is that New York's waterways are not at the same level?
Workers built locks on the Erie Canal.
Why was the Empress of China important?
It was the first trading ship to go to China from the new nation
What did Burden invent?
Horseshoe machine.
Which of the following is true about the executive branch of government?
It makes sure laws are followed.
It interprets the constitution.
It can declare war.
It makes and interprets national laws.
1) It makes sure laws are followed.
Which of the following women was a spy during the Civil War?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Harriet Tubman
Sarah Wakeman
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
What is the cause if the effect that workers laid wooden planks over roads?
Wagons got stuck in muddy roads.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, that protect people's freedoms.
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to end slavery.
What is a secondary source?
Created after an event has happened. The author of the secondary source was not part of the event.
Identify each statement as a fact (F) or opinion (O).
____ The Liberator was the most important aboltitionsist newspaper.
____ The Seneca Falls Convention was held in New York.
____ Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist.
Opinion, Fact, Fact
When does change become necessary?
Change becomes necessary because they wanted slavery to end and equal rights for men and women.