Confederecy

USA Studies Weekly

Week 19

Harmony Allen

1. Define each of the following words: conductor, station, arsenal, abolitionist, secede, cotton gin.

Conductors are people who direct a train on a railway.

Stations are the homes that gave slaves food and water and rest between trips on the train.

Arsenals are storehouses for guns.

Abolitionists are people who wanted slavery to end.

Secede means to withdraw or break away.

Cotton gins are machines that take the seeds out of cotton balls.

2. What was the cause of the quarrel between the North and the South?

The cause of the quarrel was the disagreement about slavery.

3. Which side supported slavery?

The south supported slavery.

4. Why?

The South grew a lot of cotton. The Southern Plantation owners needed the slaves to work the cotton fields.

5. How did Eli Whitney's cotton gin change the South?

The cotton gin could do 10 times the work and do it ten times faster than a person does.

6. What was the Underground Railroad?

It was the freedom Train for slaves who wanted to run away with the help of conductors and kind people. The Underground Railroad helped many slaves reach the North where they could be free.

7. Who was Harriet Tubman? Why did she become famous?

Harriet Tubman was a former slave that escaped but continued to work as a conductor to help other slaves escape.

8. What was the Compromise of 1820?

An agreement that all states south of Missouri would be slave states and all states north would be Free states. This is called the Mason Dixon Line.

9. Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe, and what did she write?

She was whom Lincoln called the "little lady who started the civil War". She was an abolitionist, she wrote the book, "Uncle Tom's cabin".

10. What was the purpose of Stowe's novel?

The purpose of this book was