Sectionalism and Reform Lesson

Sectionalism and Reform Lesson

by Joshua Collins

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Two groups of immigrants who moved to the United States in the early 1800s were the _______________ and __________________.

• Irish

• Greeks

• Italians

• German

• Israelites

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_____________________________________ led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom on secret routes to escape the South. These routes became known as the Underground Railroad.

• Samuel Slater

• Elizabeth Cady Staton

• Eli Whitney

• Harriet Tubman

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Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott the _______________________________ began in 1840 where they met to discuss the need to address the problems of women’s rights including the right to vote and run for office.

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Women's Suffrage Movement

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

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_________________________________ escaped from slavery and joined the abolitionist movement. He became a public speaker for his experiences as a slave and published The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Frederick Douglass

• Lowell System

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The ___________________________________________________ was the first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Women's Suffrage Movement

• Harriet Tubman

• Irish

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In the early 1800s, fierce sermons and energetic church services led people to renew religious faith and turn towards religion. This period became known as the ___________________________________________________.

• Eli Whitney

• German

• Women's Suffrage Movement

• Second Great Awakening

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The _______________________________________ introduced large factories that could make goods more quickly and cheaply than before. This led to a change in the culture of the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Lowell System

• Transportation Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

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___________________________ was an inventor who created interchangeable parts. This led to mass production in the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Frederick Douglass

• Seneca Falls Convention

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In the 1800s the U.S. Government underwent a ___________________________________________. During this time the National road, Erie Canal, and Steam engines were used to moved goods around the nation.

• German

• Industrial Revolution

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Transportation Revolution

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____________________________________ was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" who created the first water-powered textile mill in the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

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Francis Cabot Lowell created the __________________ which manufactured cotton cloth from raw cotton the finished cloth all in one building.

• Industrial Revolution

• Samuel Slater

• Lowell System

• Women's Suffrage Movement

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This region of the United States relied on cotton production as its primary economic means.

• The Southeast

• The Southwest

• The Northeast

• The Northwest

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___________________________ was an inventor who created interchangeable parts. This led to mass production in the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Frederick Douglass

• Seneca Falls Convention

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Which group most likely received the greatest benefit from the invention of the cotton gin.

• factory managers

• Irish immigrants

• plantation owners

• textile workers

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The combination of resources, improved transportation, and technological breakthroughs all led to the

• industrial revolution

• adoption of gold standard

• era of good feelings

• formation of agricultural cooperatives

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Which is most likely the importance of the Erie Canal being built in 1825?

• connected the Mississippi River and the Hudson River making transportation of goods easier

• more water for the settlers to use for their crops

• loss of business in the port of New York

• the bankruptcy of several railroads

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Mass Production led to:

• products being more superior in quality

• laborers received higher wages

• goods became less expensive

• industries moved to rural areas

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The nickname given to cotton.

• white gold
• Emperor Crop
• Carolina Cash
• King Cotton

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The economy of the north was based on ___________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• capitalism
• tourism

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The economy of the south was based on _________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• tourism
• trade

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I built the first spinning wheel in Rhode Island. 

• Samuel F.B. Morse
• Eli Whitney
• Henry Clay
• Samuel Slater

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Many young girls were employed and lived in boarding houses in these facilities. 

• factory systems
• interchangeable parts
• feudal manors
• Lowell mills

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These made production faster and repairs easier. 

• interchangeable parts
• cotton gins
• steel plows
• textile mills

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I am famous for inventing the machine that actually INCREASED the need for slaves in the American South. 

• Nat Turner
• Eli Whitney
• John Quincy Adams
• Robert Fulton

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When you are more loyal to the region you live in rather than your country you are showing this. 

• National pride
• American System
• Sectionalism
• Disobedience

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How did cotton relate to slavery?

• The desire to grow cotton led to increased slavery
• It did not relate to slavery
• All slaves were required to grow cotton
• Cotton was traded for slaves in Africa

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Who made up the majority of southern farmers?

• planters

• yeoman

• slaves

• native americans

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Who were the wealthiest members of southern society?

• planters

• yeoman

• slaves

• women

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What did states pass to limit what slaves could do such as traveling or learning to read?

• slave laws

• slave codes

• slave restrictions

• slave rules

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Which way was NOT a form of resistance by slaves?

• Slave revolts

• Working slower

• Running away

• Turning in other slaves

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Identify the states that were part of the Cotton Belt.

• Alabama

• Georgia

• Indiana

• Nebraska

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What newspaper was published by William Lloyd Garrison against the institution of
slavery?

• Liberator 
• American Distpatch
• New York Times

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What network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape north?

• Underground Wagen
• Road to Safety
• Lower Slave Route
• Underground Railroad

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Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

Multiple Choice

Which of these was the most common way slaves resisted slavery?

• by killing their owners
• by escaping to the North
• by organizing slave uprisings
• by finding ways to quietly rebel

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Which of the following represents the best definition of The Second Great Awakening?

• Salvation can only be achieved through a personal belief in Jesus Christ in some cases.

• People demonstrate true faith by leading a transformed life and by performing good deeds.

• Religion is the only way to solve the world's problems.

• The idea of including all people in the religious experience, not just rich people.

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What was the effect of the 2nd Great Awakening?

• The Second Great Awakening caused the start of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society.
• The 2nd Awakening caused many people to reconsider their beliefs and turn to philosophy for direction. 
• The Second Great awakening caused a great panic about the evils of alcohol in the world. 
• The Second Great Awakening created the conditions necessary to make the Southern United States consider abolition. 

Multiple Choice

Who was NOT an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Mott

• Stanton

• Dix

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Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton ?

• She was a girl.
• She faught in the revolutionary war.
• She was the first woman president of the United States of America.
• She was abolitionist to slavery and a leading figure for early womens rights movement. She was also the president of National Woman Suffrage Accosiation for 20 years.

Multiple Choice

The Temperance Movement sought to eliminate -

• Juvenile Prisons
• Consumption of alcohol
• Child labor

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The Declaration of Sentiments, adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, was significant because it - 

• promoted the idea of equal rights for women
• demanded the immediate abolition of slavery
• called for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages
• asked government to restrict harmful business practices

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Pull Factors

• Reasons to leave your home country. 
• Reasons that create mass evacuations of a given area like war or a volcano. 
• Disease and famine. 
• Economic opportunities (jobs) and Civil Freedoms (Free Speech, Free Religion, etc.)

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Escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist and publisher.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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People who fought against the continuation of slavery and other reform movements.

• Slave runners

• Abolitionists

• Freedom riders

• Secessionists

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Putting the interests of the nation behind those of one’s own region.

• Sectionalism

• Secession

• Nationalism

• Patriotism

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She escaped slavery to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Angelina Grimke

• Sojourner Truth

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Which of the following quotes best describes the contributions made by Harriet Tubman?

• "She made numerous voyages back into the South to rescue her people without fear of her well-being."

• "She was a leader of the women suffrage movement and establishing the Seneca Falls Convention."

• "She wrote letters to the founding fathers calling for them to remember the ladies when they created our government."

• "She organized the women in the South to manage the plantations while the men were fighting in the war."

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"She helped to establish the National American Women Suffrage Association. She tried to vote in the 1872 Presidential election, was arrested, convicted and ordered to pay a fine, which she refused. Her trial was a major movement in the struggle for women's suffrage."

The quote above best reflects the contributions of --

• Sojourner Truth

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dorthea Dix

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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

--Sojourner Truth Speech at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio

From the excerpt above it can be concluded that the message of Sojourner Truth's speech was that--

• slaves were given less freedoms than their white counterparts

• a black woman should be granted the same rights as a white woman

• religion and faith both played a major role in the daily life of a slave

• white women were granted citizenship while black women weren't

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Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and hundreds of other women came together in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention. Out of this convention emerged the Declaration of Sentiments which called for--

• voting rights to extend to all men regardless of race

• complete and immediate abolition of slavery

• equal treatment and protection for women under the law

• equal pay for immigrant workers in textile factories

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Which of the following quotes below would have most likely been said by a leader of the abolitionist movement?

• "I am for the complete and immediate emancipation of the millions of humans being kept in bondage."

• "Slavery is a necessary evil, it is like holding a wolf by the ears. You don't like it, but you don't dare let it go."

• "The African slave is no different than the cattle in the field or the ox and mule we use to plow the ground."

• "We depend on the slave for our entire economy...if you get rid of the slave you leave us with no economic hope."

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Which of the following newspaper headlines is announcing a meeting led by those in support of women's rights?

• "Gathering of Abolitionists at the Maryland Dry-docks at 8 p.m.

• "Suffrage convention this evening at the Old Towne Hall"

• "Temperance Meeting at the Green Dragon Tavern on Saturday"

• " Conference of Transcendentalists to be held Monday at Walden Pond"

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"It [alcohol] is the scourge of the nation...the cause of all its evils. It has led to the degradation of the American family...the unemployed father...the beaten wife...the criminal on the street."

Based on the quote above, which statement would Lyman Beecher most likely agree with regarding alcohol?

• Individuals were turning to alcohol during the difficult economic times caused by the war.

• The crime increase in the cities was caused by the large amount of immigration.

• Many factories were forced to close and it led many workers unemployed.

• Temperance legislation should be immediately passed by the national government.

Multiple Choice

One of the most important accomplishments of the women's rights movement was the drafting and approval of the Declaration of Sentiments, which significantly impacted the movement by --

• driving a wedge between the abolitionists and women's rights movements

• declaring that all women should be treated as equal to men

• persuading the President to allow women to vote in national elections

• increasing the feeling of sectionalism between the North and South

Multiple Choice

Beginning around 1790 there was a religious revival spreading throughout the country through the evangelizing of different ministers and leaders, Many different Christian denominations were founded during this time period, which became known as the Second Great Awakening. The events of the Second Great Awakening demonstrated the --

• need for one central denomination to unite the states

• desire for a secular government to be established

• enormous amount of religious intolerance in the nation

• importance of religious freedom in the country

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Frederick Douglas

-Established the anti-slavery newspaper, the Northstar

-Described his experiences as a slave in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.

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Which of the following actions would best complete the table above?

• Worked to allow African Americans to serve in the Union army

• Authored the Declaration of Sentiments to gain women's suffrage.

• Opposed the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in Southern states.

• Supported the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case.

Multiple Choice

The movement that contributed to the rise of reformers like Dorothea Dix was --

• the Second Great Awakening

• transcendentalism

• abolition

• temperance

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How did preachers of the Second Great Awakening encourage Americans to work to reform society?

• By preaching about human being's natural sinfulness

• By preaching about human beings' ability to avoid wrongdoing

• By emphasizing the audience's ability to reason

• By emphasizing the importance of Manifest Destiny

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On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen;--but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL BE HEARD.

--William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, January 1, 1831

• wanted an immediate and complete end to slavery

• thought freed slaves should have their own colony in Africa

• demanded state-level laws for gradual emancipation

• believed slavery was morally wrong

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With which reform movement was Susan B. Anthony most associated?

• Abolition

• Women's Suffrage

• Education Reform

• Temperance

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Accomplishments

-Championed the cause of women's rights

-Worked with Susan B. Anthony to lead to a reform movement

-Drafted a Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention

Which of the following accomplishments should be added to the list above?

• Called for reforms to prisons and mental health institutions

• Wrote a novel that gained widespread support for the abolition of slavery

• Co-founded the National Women Suffrage Association to work for voting rights

• Increased public opposition to the temperance movement