Lesson 1 "Industries Develop Slowly"

Turn to Page 270-271 and look at the picture and read the short introduction to unit 5.

Turn to Page 272 analyze the timeline at the bottom of the page and read the introduction to the chapter.

Scan Pages 273-275; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 273-275 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 273-275.

Read Pages 273-275 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 275? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 1 "Industries Develop Slowly" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 1 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Exaggerate - to overstate the truth.

Economy - a system of producing and using up, and distributing wealth.

Fugitive - one who is fleeing from danger or from being kept against one's will.

Section Review Answers

1. Southerners felt abolitionists were exaggerating the abuse of African-American slaves.
2. Northerners depended on the South for business.
3. The South depended on slavery for its economy.
4. Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun debated the slavery issue in Congress.
5. President Fillmore found a compromise in 1850.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to describe how northerners and southerners felt about abolition?

Can you give the terms of the Compromise of 1850?

Lesson 2 "Slavery Issues Continue"

Scan Pages 276-278; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 276-278 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 276-278.

Read Pages 276-278 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 278? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 2 "Slavery Issues Continue" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 2 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Conductor - a person who helped free slaves by using the Underground Railroad.

Network - a system that is linked together in some way.

Section Review Answers

1. The Fugitive Slave Law made people in the North return runaway enslaved Africans.
2. The Underground Railroad helped free enslaved Africans.
3. Sojourner Truth was a former enslaved person who spoke out against slavery.
4. Franklin Pierce became President in 1852
5. The Gadsden Purchase was the purchase of land that now makes up Arizona and New Mexico.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain the Fugitive Slave Law?

Are you able to explain how the Underground Railroad helped slaves escape slavery?

Are you able to describe the importance of cotton to both the northern and southern economies?

Can you explain the significance of the Gadsden Purchase?

Lesson 3 "The Kansas-Nebraska Act"

Scan Pages 279-281; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 279-281 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 279-281.

Read Pages 279-281 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 281? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 3 "The Kansas-Nebraska Act" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 3 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Produce -fruits or vegetables.

Popular sovereignty - power of the people to decide something, especially whether to become a free state or a slave state.

Tension - Uncomfortable feelings toward another person or group.

Section Review Answers

1. Railroads were needed for travel to the West because travel by covered wagon or by sea was too slow or dangerous.
2. The routes discussed include Chicago to the oregon coast, Chicago to St. Louis to San Francisco, New Orleans to San diego, and Memphis to Los Angeles.
3. The northerners favored the route from St. Louis or Chicago to California.
4. the southerners favored the rout from New Orleans to San Diego.
5. A group of Free Solders, northern Whigs, and Democrats formed the Republican party.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you identify the need for a transcontinental railroad?

Are you able to explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the conflict it caused between political parties?

Are you able to describe the formation of the Republican party?

 Preparing for Chapter 14 Test

Turn to Page 282 and read the article, "Daniel Webster's Speech to the Senate".

Turn to Page 283 and read the Chapter 14 summary.

On page 284-285 you will find the Chapter 14 review, complete the review.

Check your answers with those in the Key Points.

Take the Chapter 14 Test "The Slavery Problem Grows"

Review the answers then print the results for your records.

Chapter 14 Review answers

1. Fugitive Slave Law
2. Compromise of 1850
3. William Lloyd Garrison
4. Underground Railroad
5. cotton
6. Harriet Tubman
7. abolitionists
8. free states
9. slave states
10. textiles
11. the District of Columbia
12. Kansas-Nebraska Act
13. Gadsden Purchase

The Comprehension: Understanding Main Ideas

1. Southerners sold the cotton to northern textile mills and also to other countries. Northerners sold the finished textiles.
2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act came into being because people were trying to find a rout for the railroad to go across the country.
3. The part of the Compromise of 1850 that established California as a free state affected California the most
4. Southerners claimed that they treated their enslaved Africans better that free Africans were treated in the North.
5. The law was established to help return runaway slaves to their owners in the South.

Congratulations you finished the Fourteenth chapter !!