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OHIO HISTORY: Chapter 7 Research Questions

page 117
1. What is the difference between a free state and a slave state?
2. What is a plantation?
3. What law banned slavery in Ohio?
page 118-119
4. What was the Underground Railroad?
5. What were the people called who helped runaway slaves along their way toward freedom?
6. Why do you think the slaves called the North Star and Big Dipper "guide lights?"
page 120-121
7. What is an abolitionist?
8. What law was passed in 1850 that said people in the North must help catch slaves and return them to their owners?
9. Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
page 122
10. Who was our nation's president during the Civil War?
11. How many Ohio men fought in the Civil War?
12. How did Ohio women help out during the Civil War?
page 126
13. Name 2 famous Union generals that were from Ohio.
page 127-128
14. What was the most important result of the Civil War?
15. What terrible event occurred just a few days after the Civil War ended?

OHIO HISTORY: Chapter 6 Research Questions

page 98
1. Why was Ohio called the Gateway State?
2. People of Ohio started the T_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: better and faster ways to travel in and out of the state.
3. Why was transportation so important?
pages 101-104
4. Which direction did National Road run through Ohio?
5. From New Philadelphia, in which direction would you have to travel to get to National Road?
6. What two main bodies of water did the Ohio canals connect?
7. What allowed canal boats to travel up and down hilly country?
8. What was the maximum speed a canal boat could travel?
9. Why didn't people use steamboats and canal boats much after railroads came about?
pages 105-106
10. Name 4 reasons the Irish immigrated to the United States.
11. Name 3 reasons Germans came to the United States.
pages 111
12. What is a communal religion?
13. What were the names of the 2 largest groups of communal religions?
14. Why were the Shakers called "Shakers?"
15. Which Ohio town got its name from the Shakers?

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1926: Inventor Robert Goddard

1877: Thomas Edison Invents the Phonograph

The Wright Brothers In Flight

1903: Wright Brothers' First Successful Flight

1876: Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Invention

1844: The Telegraph / Samuel Morse

1860: Pony Express Story

1807: Robert Fulton's Steamship

IMMIGRATION: Ellis Island 1892 - 1954

1862: Construction Begins for The First Transcontinental Railroad

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