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