Americans are Revolting!
This document declared independence from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Enslaved Africans were forced to work mostly on these types of farms
What are plantations?
Romantics focused on strong feeling and the beauty of this subject
What is nature?
This movement worked hard to end slavery
What is abolition?
This invention by James Watt helped power factories and trains
What is the steam engine?
The slogan of the colonists prior to Revolution
What is "No taxation without representation?"
A product that was commonly traded for enslaved people
What is sugar (or tobacco, or rum)?
This composer wrote some of the most famous and emotional music in history, including Symphony No. 5 and Moonlight Sonata
Who was Beethoven?
People were sent here if they couldn’t repay a debt
What is Debtor’s Prison?
The Industrial Revolution started in this country
What is Great Britain?
The first shots of the Revolution were fired here
What is the Old North Bridge?
Which 3 regions were connected by the Triangular trade?
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
This painter created one of the iconic images of the Romantic movement: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Who was Caspar David Friedrich?
This movement worked to limit access to alcohol
What is temperance?
This Massachusetts town was famous for its many factories and production of textiles
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
This French General helped Washington win the war
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This term describes the long, terrible voyage enslaved Africans were forced to take across the ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
Romanticism was a reaction against this big change in the way people worked and lived
Wha is the Industrial Revolution?
A persuasive, well-known advocate for abolition and women’s rights
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Making more things in factories meant that more raw materials were required, which helped lead to this global system of domination
What is colonization?
The laws enacted by Parliament that led to revolt by the American Colonists
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This part of the Americas had the most enslaved people brought from Africa
What is the Caribbean?
The Romantic Era (late 1700s - early 1800s) came after this earlier movement that focused on logic and reason instead of emotion and feeling
What is the Enlightenment?
The Women’s Rights movement often held meetings like this famous 1848 event
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This invention made spinning thread much faster
What is the spinning Jenny?