African American Life
The legal status of enslaved people in the U.S.
What is property?
She dedicated her life to helping the imprisoned.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The group of people who most benefitted from early efforts to establish public schools?
Who are boys?
The economy in the South was based on this.
What is agriculture?
Well known for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Free African Americans faced this in both the North and South
A person who follows this philosophy might have said that "people should trust their emotions and intuition."
Who or what is a transcendentalist?
The abolitionist who was a former slave and later held public office in the U.S.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The shift from making handmade products to machine made products.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
First African American to attend college in the U.S.
Who is John Chavis?
The invention most directly impacted enslaved people in the south.
The person who would have said "Education.. is a great equalizer of the conditions of men- the balance wheel of social machinery."
Who is Horace Mann?
This person is known for creating the steam boat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This invention led to industrialization of Northern agriculture.
What is the reaper?
The religious movement that taught that doing good works would earn Christians salvation.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This person helped many enslaved people escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The group that was focused on eliminating slavery.
Who are abololitionists?
This person is a prominent women's rights activist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton? or Lucretia Mott?
The most efficient way to move goods in the North in 1850s was by this form of transportation.
What are railroads?
The year that slavery ended in the United States with the 13th amendment.
What is 1865?
This person resisted slavery by organizing a violent rebellion.
Who is Nat Turner?
The abolitionist who created a newspaper titled "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The model document for the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The primary method for transporting goods in the South.
What are rivers?
The statement issued by Abraham Lincoln ending slavery in the south during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?