Important Abolitionists
Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through speaking and writing
Who is Frederick Douglass
What crop worth a cash crop during the Antebellum Period?
What is cotton
1861-1865; war between the North and South over slavery was triggered by the election of Abraham Lincoln, who later wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War
A person who wanted to end slavery
Abolitionist
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s in Britain, then expanded to the US in the early 1800s
What is the Industrial Revolution
Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad; Black Moses
Who is Harriet Tubman
A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793; led to increase in slavery
What is the Cotton Gin?
(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
What is the Underground Railroad?
United States slave and abolitionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia
Who is Nat Turner
Young women who worked in the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution
Who are the Lowell Girls?
a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
A person who has invested personal wealth (capital) in business
What is a capitalist
A forts used for the temporary confinement of slaves. Slaves would be held at these huts to await transportation across the Atlantic Ocean
What are Baracoons?
(1811-1896) American author, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Last slave ship to arrive in America (1860), found in Mobile, Alabama
What is the Clotilda
Political cartoons often depicted immigrants from this country as apelike monsters due to racist beliefs of the time
What is Irish
(1848) the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Movement of people from rural areas to cities
Slave of army surgeon who sued for his freedom after he argued that he became free when he lived in a free territory. He did not win, black people were not citizens.
Who is Dredd Scott?
A time period after the Industrial Revolution and before the Civil War (1820s-1860s)
What is the Antebellum Period
Declared that all "people are created equal"; used the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights
a person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants
What is a Nativist?
money for investment
What is capital?