The North
What was the nickname for a clipper ship?
Yankee Clippers
This man invented the cotton gin and made slavery an even more booming business down south.
Eli Whitney
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wanted to end slavery
This woman was an illiterate former slave who spoke up for African Americans & women alike.
Sojourner Truth
What book showed the human problem side of slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Urbanization in the north was the result of what?
The Industrial Revolution
The wealthy families of the south made up something called the what?
Cottonocracy
Who was one of the most powerful speakers for abolitionism?
Frederick Douglass
This woman wrote the Declaration of Sentiments that stated all men and women are created equal and listed injustices against women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allow?
Government officials could arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave
Although they were free, African Americans faced what in the north?
Discrimination
These laws controlled every aspect of slave's lives
Slave Codes
What blocked discussion of antislavery petitions in Congress?
A gag rule
Susan B. Anthony
This party was working to ban slavery gained in the territory from the Mexican American War
Free Soil Party
This group came to America because of a famine to their main crop.
The Irish
What was the one thing that could protect a slave from extreme mistreatment?
Their owners looking on them as valuable property
Why did the American Colonization Society fail at freeing and sending off slaves to Liberia?
Most of them were American born and did not want to go to Liberia
This was the birthplace of the women's rights movement.
Seneca Falls Convention
What state was being brought into the US that made the south threaten to secede if they were made a free state?
California
Who invented the first American steam locomotive?
Peter Cooper
Because the south was mostly _____, they relied on the north for industrial goods and loans to expand their plantations
At an estimate, how many slaves were saved between Levi Coffin and Harriet Tubman?
3,300
What was the name of the first college founded for women?
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Why did the South not want more free states?
It threatened the stability of slavery