Study Guide for "America, North and South" and maps

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Study Guide for test on “America, North and South” and Maps we have done

(Pages 17-23)
1. Why did the population of the US grow so fast between 1800 and 1860?


2. The expansion of the railroad was important in a number of ways. Explain what these were in detail.


3. In what important ways was life in the North different from life in the South?


4. Explain the way the in the South depended on the North and the economy of the North depended on the South.


5. This relationship caused many difficulties. Explain these conflicts.


6. Who was John Calhoun and what did he propose?

Was this a good idea? Explain your answer.

Slavery - We watched the film and also you read about slavery in the reading packet. The following questions draw from both the film and the reading.
7. The earliest colonists, who came in the mid 1600’s, brought slaves and indentured servants with them. Would you say the lives of these early enslaved people were better or worse than those of slaves in the 1800’s? Explain your answer.

8. Where did the slaves come from and how did they get to the Americas?

9. Who was Eli Whitney and what did he do?

When was this? What difference did it make and why?

10. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an important book called
What impact did it have and why?

11. Abolitionists were people who _________________________________________________.
What are some things abolitionists did?

Who was William Lloyd Garrison and what did he do?


12. How did Southerners see the people they enslaved and justify slavery?

From the Maps and Timeline
13. People from what 3 countries came to the Americas starting in the 1600’s?


What are some of the reasons they came?


14. Who was already here and what happened to them?

15. There were two major trade triangles. One went from ______________________ to ________________________ to ___________________________. The other one went from ________________________ to _________________________ to _______________________
Draw them on the map and show what was traded in each direction. Were people in both the Northern and Southern colonies involved on these trade triangles? Explain.

16. The 13 original colonies belonged to which country? ____________________________
When did they become the United States and how? ___________________________________

17. The United States grew by buying land, annexing land and having land ceded to it. Explain what each of these words means.

18. What happened in 1803? Be specific and explain the importance of this.


19. How and when the US get land that is now part of Florida?

20. Explain what a border adjustment is.

Where did this happen and with what country?
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