Westward Expansion/Slavery

What type of economy developed in the North in the 1800s?

• Agriculture

• Industry

• Slavery

• Communism

Why was Samuel Slater important?

• He invented the cotton gin

• He owned the Lowell Mill

• He was an abolitionist

• He is considered the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"

Which group of people primarily worked in textile mills, like the Lowell Mill?

• Elderly people

• Slaves

• Young girls and women

• Widows

Textile is another word for:

• Cloth

• Steamboat

• Technology

• Plantation

What was the importance of the invention of the cotton gin?

• It got rid of the need for slavery

• It completely mechanized the process of farming cotton

• It made cotton production less profitable

• It made separating cotton fibers from seeds much easier

What options did a slave master have to punish his slaves?

• Nothing; slave masters couldn't punish slaves

• He could beat or sell them

• He could return them to their original owner

• He could send them to jail or kill them

What was the issue at hand when Missouri wanted to become a state?

• Whether or not they would produce cotton

• Whether they would have slavery or not

• Whether they would vote for Andrew Jackson for president

• Whether they would endorse the Indian Removal Act

Why did American settlers want land that Native Americans were living on?

• To expand slavery

• For textile mills

• For cotton production

• To punish Native Americans for the Seminole War

How did the Erie Canal impact the North?

• It made trade easier

• It increased the number of slaves in the North

• It led to the invention of the steamboat

• It led to discrimination against Irish workers

Per the Missouri Compromise, the state of Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a ___________ state.

• Free

• Slave

• Independent

• Frontier