Social Studies Test

Social Studies Test on Friday, June 11 This will be a matching and a multiple-choice test. You will also be asked to explain two issues that you choose from a list. Topics Covered: 1. The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in New England, including Lowell (including cotton gin) 2. The differences between the economies of the North (urban, industrial) and the South (rural, agricultural) --- you wrote about this! 3. How the United States dealt with the slavery question, as it expanded its territory: Know -

• the Missouri Compromise (1820)
• the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• Fugitive Slave Act [part of 1850 Compromise] (1850)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• "Bleeding Kansas" (1856)
• Dred Scott decision (1857)

People/Terms to Know:

• factory system
• market economy
• farm economy
• cotton gin
• Eli whitney
• Louisiana Purchase
• abolitionism
• "mill girls"
• blacklist
• Anthony Burns
• Charles Suttle
• Charles F. Lowell
• canals, Erie Canal
• John Brown
• Sen. Stephen Douglas
• "Boston Associates"
• power loom
• entrepreneur
• Dred Scott
• "border ruffians"
• T.W. Higginson