Chapter 11 Quiz Terms Explore

You will need to use the video segments (red link below) and text (red link below) to answer the following questions.  Please share your replies with me after you complete each step.

> > > > > > Chapter 11 Terms Explore Video Segments Link < < < < < <

> > > > > > U.S. History Text Link < < < < < < (or grab a class text)

For each step, watch the related video segment and explore the topic in the text.

Video Segment 1) The Cotton Gin:
a) What text page(s) have information about this topic?
b) Who is the inventor?
c) What does his invention do?
d) How did his invention change the U.S.?
e) What DV term connects to this topic?

Video Segment 2) Lowell Girls
a) What text page(s) have information about this topic?
b) Compared to other factories, was Lowell a good place to work?  Why?
c) Where did Lowell get his ideas for a weaving machine?
d) What term describes the rapid manufacturing of a large number of objects?
e) What DV term connects to the working place?
f) What DV terms connects to the living place?
g) What DV term QUOTE connects to Lowell's weaving machines?

Video Segment 3) Steamboat
a) What text page(s) have information about this topic?
b) Who was the famous author?
c) What was his real name?
d) Who was the inventor?
e) What was the special power of the steamboat?
f) Whose life did the steamboat change? How?
g) What DV term connects to this topic?
h) Since more goods can now be sold, what DV term will increase?
 

Video Segment 4) Daniel Boone
a) What text page(s) have information about this topic?
b) What direction did he travel?
c) What was the best road to travel?
d) What might be a topic for one episode of the show?
e) What DV Term provided many of the settlers?
f) What DV term provided the place of settlement?

Video Segment 5) Missouri Compromise
a) What text page(s) have information about this topic?
b) Where do the puppets represent?
c) Who saves the day?
d) How does he save the day?
e) What is wrong with the line on the map in the video?
f) Who was 'alarmed' by the debate over slavery?
g) What extra power does the South get?
h) What DV term protected slavery from government interference?
i) What DV term was used to solve the problem?
j) What DV term was avoided?
k) In what DV term did these events take place?

Step 6) Select one of the above topics for further investigation.
Qu) Create a researchable question related to your topic.
E) Record notes about your topic/ cite sources.
R) Answer your question based on your research.
Y) Explain why this matters/ how it affected history.

Step 7) Repeat Step 6 until time runs out.