Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 4:  The Growing Years
Page 4 - 31 and 4 - 32   Growing Apart:  North and South
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The Pictures:
 
1.  A machine for making wagon wheels.  The factory system spread rapidly in  the North in the first half of the 19th century.

2.  Slaves on a cotton plantation.  By 1850, slavery had become the biggest moral and political issue confronting the people of the United States.

3.  Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became one of the most famous for his speeches against slavery.  He also published an anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star.

4.  Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.  The book inflamed the passions of people on both sides of the slavery issue.
Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 4 - 32.)
 
1.  ...the cost of...
2.  ...as different from...
3.  ...safe political balance.
4.  ...did not own...
5.  ...involved the abolitionists.
6.   ...Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, became...
7.   ...a vote on...
8.   ...in any territory.
9.   ...at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
10.  ...convicted, and hanged.
(Note that hanged is the past tense of hang when speaking of an execution.)
11.  ...any new territories...
12.  ...would ruin them...


Names and Terms List:

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