Vocabulary
What is a person who owns, controls, or holds a top management position in a large-scale manufacturing or industrial enterprise?
What is INDUSTRIALIST?
Who was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War? He led an armed band of 21 men raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He hoped to seize weapons, arm enslaved people, and ignite a massive liberation revolt.
Who is John Brown?
What is the intentional clearing, cutting, or removal of forests and trees from land so it can be converted to non-forest uses such as agriculture, ranching, or urban development?
What is deforestation?
Who was an American abolitionist (a person who supported ending slavery), social activist, and former enslaved person who led individuals on the Underground Railroad. She was a conductor, nurse, and scout during the Civil War.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Who (August 19, 1814 – January 11, 1904) was an American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate, abolitionist, and civil rights pioneer? She was one of America's first self-made African American Female millionaires.
Who was Mary Ellen Pleasant?
What is a person who supports or advocates for the elimination of a specific institution, law, or practice, most famously the movement to end slavery?
What is abolitionist?
Who was (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American educator, humanitarian, and social reformer who pioneered the advocacy and humane treatment of people with mental illness and prison reform?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
What is a person who leaves their home country to move to a new country with the intention of living there permanently?
What is an immigrant?
Who was (1805–1879) was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for publishing the influential anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator from 1831 to 1865?
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Who invented the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow (crafted from a broken steel saw blade)? He entered the tractor market to create a successful business.
Who was John Deere?
What is the historical transition of global economies from agrarian and handicraft systems to ones dominated by industry and machine manufacturing?
What is the industrial revolution?
Who co-organized the historic 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York and authored its Declaration of Sentiments, which modeled women's demand for full citizenship on the Declaration of Independence? She was an American writer, philosopher, and activist who was the primary leader of the suffrage movement in the US.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
What is a mechanical implement or tractor-drawn machine used to cut and gather grain at harvest time?
What is a reaper?
Who was an enslaved Black preacher who led the deadliest slave rebellion in U.S. history? He became a deeply religious man and a prominent local preacher who believed God chose him to lead enslaved people out of bondage through divine visions.
Who was Nat Turner?
Who gained his freedom, became one of the most famous and influential abolitionist orators, writers, and human rights leaders in American history? He used his powerful speaking skills and his bestselling autobiographies to expose the evils of slavery and fight for equal rights.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
What is a historic 363-mile artificial waterway in upstate New York that connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie, officially completed in 1825? Its importance was realized during the War of 1812.
What is the Erie Canal?
Who was an American educator and politician known as the "father of the American public school system". He promoted better training for teachers, longer school years, and standardized school organization that laid the groundwork for modern public education.
Who is Horace Mann?
What is the process of creating, improving, or implementing new ideas, methods, products, or services to deliver measurable value and solve problems?
What is innovation?
Who was an American businessman and industrialist who founded the U.S. cotton textile industry and launched the American Industrial Revolution?
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
Who led the Union through the American Civil War, preserving the United States as a single country and defeating the Confederacy? He issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to free enslaved people in Confederate states and championed the Thirteenth Amendment.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What is a country or region that generates most of its wealth through farming rather than manufacturing?
What is an agrarian society?
Who was an American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home.
Who was Elias Howe?
What is a foundational document of the American women's rights movement, written in 1848 to demand social, civil, religious, and political equality for women which was adopted at a convention in New York?
What is Declaration of Sentiments?
Who was (1811–1896) was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, a landmark anti-slavery novel?
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Who were pioneering American abolitionists, women's rights advocates, and social reformers during the 19th century? They converted and became Quakers and are directly connected to the struggle to end racial injustice and the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights.
Who was the Grimke sisters?