01 Antebellum America

What is a strike?

• A protest where workers refuse to work until conditions improve.

• A protest where workers attack factory owners.

• A group of people working in the same industry at different companies.

Which group made up the majority of white Southerners?

• Small Farmers

• Poor Whites

• Planters

What is an abolitionist?

• Person who worked to end slavery.

• Person who worked for women’s rights.

• Person who worked to gain rights for the disabled.

Why were there fewer industries in the South than in the North in the mid-1800s?

• Those with money in the South invested in farmland and enslaved labor.

• The South had fewer people who were able to work in factories.

• Those with money in the North chose not to invest in other states.

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• Period in history where machines were first used to make products.

• Period in history where guns were used for the first time.

• Period in history where machines took over jobs in government.

What were the basic views of nativists?

• They disliked new cultures and believed immigrants would take American jobs.

• They supported immigration to America because the cheap labor would help the economy.

• They believed slavery was morally wrong and should be abolished.

Define the term urbanization.

• The movement of people from farms to cities.

• The development of steam power in factories.

• The decrease in working conditions for most workers.

Not all northerners supported abolition. Which of the following explains why some were opposed to ending slavery?

• Some feared that freed African Americans would come north and take their jobs by working for less pay.

• Some felt that the federal government would have to help support former slaves, which would mean higher taxes to pay for such programs.

• Some assumed freed African Americans would leave the country and return to Africa; this would hurt America's world reputation and its ability to negotiate with foreign nations.

Which was the main goal of the temperance movement?

• to prevent the abuse of alcohol

• to provide better care for the disabled

• to improve prison conditions

Why were women fighting for suffrage?

• They wanted to win the right to vote.

• They wanted to end physical abuse toward women.

• They wanted to gain the right to work.