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BOAT Study Guide
PART ONE: Sectionalism
Match the following terms to the correct definitions (answers can be found on your
Industrial Revolution Chart Notes)
NORTH
A. Peter Cooper
B. Tom Thumb
C. Robert Fulton
D. Manufacturing
E. Unions
F. Sectionalism
G. Lowell System
H. Samuel Slater
I. Samuel Morse
J. Interchangeable Parts
K. Mass Production
L. Textile Mill
M. Eli Whitney
_____ invented the cotton gin and
interchangeable parts
_____ name for the first locomotive
_____ skilled workers that unite to improve
working conditions
_____ sent a message with the electric telegraph
_____ efficiently producing a large number of
goods from natural resources
_____ secretly bought textile machine blueprints
to America
_____ loyalty to one’s region of the country
_____ invented the first steam locomotive
_____ adapted the steam engine for use as a boat
_____ self-contained factory with young women
workers
______ process of making each vital part of a
machine exactly the same
_____ first type of factory in the north
_____ creating a large quantity of the same exact
product
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South
Define the following terms: (answers can be found on your stereotype chart and other
south handouts and notes)
1. Cash crop
2. Cotton Boom
3. King Cotton
4. Middle Passage
5. Cotton Belt
6. Peculiar Institution
7. Frederick Douglass
8. Harriet Tubman
9. Station
10. Conductor
11. Triangle Trade
12. Fugitive Slave Act
Open-Ended Questions
(Answers can be found in King Cotton and slavery sections of your notebook)
13. How did Africans help in the slave trade?
14. How did the invention of the Cotton Gin impact slavery?
15. Why was cotton a popular crop with southern farmers?
16. Explain the benefit of “loose pack” for the Middle Passage?
17. What percentage of southerners owned slaves? What percentage did NOT own slaves.
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WEST
(Answers can be found in your West handouts and notes)
1. Explain Manifest Destiny
2. What time period did Americans believe in Manifest Destiny?
3. Explain the push/pull theory
4. What are some dangers of the trail?
5. How did the pioneer train create an atmosphere of democratic principals?
Define the following terms:
Independence, MO
James Polk
Mexican Cession
Sam Houston
Alamo
Gold Rush
San Jacinto
54º40’ or Fight
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PART TWO: EVENTS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR
Use the word bank to answer the questions below (These answers can be found in the
student notebook “A Divided Nation”)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harper’s Ferry
Bleeding Kansas
Fort Sumter
Nat Turner
Emancipation Proclamation
Fugitive Slave Act
Stephen Douglas
Dred Scott Decision
Gettysburg Address
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
Election of 1860
1. What idea allowed voters to decide the slavery issue?
2. What was the name of the anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
3. What was the location of the revolt led by John Brown in order to protest slavery?
4. What event resulted in pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups attacking one another over
popular sovereignty?
5. What was the Supreme Court ruling, that stated that slaves were not citizens?
6. What resulted in California being allowed into the union as a free state and Texas being
allowed into the union as a slave state?
7. What law made it a crime to help runaway slaves?
8. Which event led to the secession of South Carolina?
9. Who was the leader of a slave revolt that killed many whites?
10. Who ran in the election against Lincoln in 1860?
11. What decision allowed for Kansas to be admitted into the union by popular sovereignty?
12. Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
13. Following a pivotal battle, President Lincoln delivered a speech to dedicate a cemetery at
the battlefield. What was the name of that speech?
14. Statement by the president that freed slaves in southern states, but not the border states.
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