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North/South/Slavery

Question: The North's economy was based on...
Answer: industry & factories

Question: He created a reliable steamboat to carry goods and passengers
Answer: Robert Fulton

Question: He created a means of communication using dashes and dots
Name him and his creation
Answer: Samuel Morse / Morse Code using a telegraph machine

Question: DAILY DOUBLE

Name 2 out the 3 inventions that revolutionized agriculture
Answer: Steel tipped plow
thresher
reaper

Question: This term means "new ideas or methods" and it changes the way Americans worked, traveled and communicated
Answer: Innovations

The South's People

Question: The term for a large farm in the South
Answer: plantation

Question: This term refers to an African American religious folk song
Answer: spirituals

Question: This was the term for the passage of slaves to freedom in the North or Canada
Answer: Underground Railroad

Question: DAILY DOUBLE

Name the four types of farmers in the South and define them
Answer: Yeomen - farmers without slaves, poor
Tenant - rented land and worked as farmers
Rural - poor, self-sufficient farmers
Plantation Owners - measured their wealth by the number of slaves they owned

Question: What was the term for the laws that controlled slaves?

Name the term and one of the laws.
Answer: Slave Codes

Slaves couldn't congregate in large groups
Slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write

People

Question: This term was used to describe people who sought to end slavery
Answer: Abolitionists

Question: This Northern abolitionist wrote "The Liberator" in which he asked for the immediate freeing of enslaved people
Answer: William Lloyd Garrison

Question: Originally from the South, these "sisters" used their inheritance money to buy and free slaves
Answer: Grimke Sisters

Question: This African American woman spoke about the "truths" and horrors of slavery
Answer: Sojourner Truth

Question: This abolitionist was born into slavery but later ran away and traveled extensively speaking out against slavery
Answer: Frederick Douglass

More People!

Question: This woman is known for her helping & hiding slaves reach the North & Canada where they were free
Answer: Harriet Tubman

Question: A result of "Bleeding Kansas" was this man's raid on an arsenal in Virginia.

Name him and the location of the raid
Answer: John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry

Question: These "sisters" used their inheritance money to buy and free slaves in the South
Answer: The Grimke sisters

Question: This enslaved African American openly rebelled against plantation owners, killing 55 whites before being killed himself
Answer: Nat Turner

Question: DAILY DOUBLE

President Lincoln wrote that this woman's book about the brutality of slavery may have started the Civil War.

Name her and the book she wrote.
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Definitions please!

Question: popular sovereignty
Answer: the idea that people living in a certain territory had the right to decide if slavery would exist in their territory

Question: The year slavery was banned
Answer: 1808

For an extra 100 did it stop slavery??

Question: overseer
Answer: person who was the manager /supervisor of enslaved people on a plantation

Question: literacy
how did it relate to the South?
Answer: literacy is the number of people able to read and write.

The South fell behind in literacy because geographically farms were far apart and families could not send their children

Question: American Colonization Society
Answer: This "society" looked to abolish slavery. They bought slaves and looked to resettle them in Africa and the Caribbean