Pre Civil War Test

You will be having a test in class on Monday, February 11^th. It will be a combination of multiple choice and short answer. You should be familiar with the bolded terms. The questions are ones that you might see on the test. We will be reviewing on Friday, Feb. 8^th.

· What are the basic ideas behind the Industrial Revolution, Market Revolution, and the Transportation Revolution?

o What impact did the Erie Canal have on the development of the United States

o Where were most of the railroads found in the United States?

o What two inventions defined the Transportation Revolution?

o How did factories change the way work was done in the United States?

o Why did women and immigrants find the Industrial Revolution so important?

· Women’s Rights Movement

o What did The Grimke Sisters, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton believe about women’s rights?

o Why did the Industrial Revolution help the Women’s Rights Movement get started?

o What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?

o What was the main idea behind the Declaration of Sentiments?

o What problems did women face (as explained in the Declaration of Sentiments?

o What did men think about women who wanted the right to vote?

o Why did owning property mean so much to women?

· What is the meaning of Temperance?

o What did people think would happen to people who drank too much alcohol?

o What things were okay to drink and what wasn’t?

· Why was getting a public education so important to Americans?

· Why did immigrants from Ireland and Germany want to move to the United States?

o What does Nativism mean?

o Why were immigrants drawn as monkeys?

· What were the conditions like for slaves in the South?

o What type of roles did abolitionists play in attempting to get rid of slavery?

o How did Southerners defend the idea of slavery?

o How did the Market Revolution make slavery successful? What invention made slavery successful?

o What role did Fredrick Douglass play in the abolition movement?