WorksheetsChapter 5 History Study Guide
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
1. What three states did most people moved to Alabama from?
Hawaii, Colorado, Nevada
Georgia, Carolinas, Virginia
South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama
2. What government provided money for the two roads through Alabama?
the mayor
the white house
congress
3. Name the routes travelers used to get to Alabama.
trail of tears
county road 480
Natchez Trace, Old Federal Road
4. What was the difference between speculators and squatters?
squatters lived on land illegally and speculators bought land to resell
speculators lived on land illegally and squatters bought land to resell
5. What did pioneers build their cabins out of?
limbs
mud and stone
logs from trees
6. Why were the early settlers lonely?
they couldn't talk
they wanted to be alone
they didn't have any neighbors
7. What did settler families do for fun?
cook
play monopoly
sing, dance, shuck corn
8. How did students get a drink of water at school?
water fountain
using their hand at the creek
using a big spoon out of a shared bucket
9. What does the word Demopolis mean?
City of the People
City of Corn
City of Demolition
10. Why did plantation houses have high ceilings?
so hot air would rise and keep rooms cool in Summer
because it looked nice
so they could hang more things on the walls
11. Where was the kitchen in plantation homes? Why?
in the living room
In a separate building from the home. Because of smells.
In a separate building from the home. In case of fire.
12. How was a wealthy planter’s son educated?
going to school
reading books at home
hiring a private teacher
13. Describe the life of a slave.
easy, fun, exciting, boring
hard, poor, sad, tough, hungry, busy, dirty
clean, good, spoiled, wealthy
14. What was the slave code?
numbers in a book
laws that allowed control over everything the slave did
promise they kept to each other
15. How did the cotton gin change Alabama?
they were able to sell more cotton faster
it added a business
a job instead of farming
16. Describe how your life is different than the life of a slave child.
we get to go to school and do not have to have a job
we have to help our parents work and they didn't
we do chores at home
passable by ships means
mills
navigable
freedman
land beyond the settled land is
frontier
open land
meadows
person who settled on land they didn't own is
speculators
economy
squatters
person who buys land to resell it for profit is a
yeoman
squatter
speculator
person who owns a small farm without the help of slaves
freedman
yeoman
planters
large area of land with a big farm
plantation
planter
mill
person who owned a plantation
yeoman
freedman
planters
machine invented by Eli Whitney to speed up cotton sales
Cotton Gin
Cotton Puller
Cotton Grabber
all things people do to make and sell goods and services
mills
speculator
economy
a factory built near a river with fast flowing water
navigable
frontier
mills
