People
The Leader of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman.
What was the machine that helped clean cotton?
The cotton gin.
Famous battle in Texas?
Tha Alamo
People who worked for somebody and had no freedoms.
Slaves.
Define Antebellum.
Before War.
John Smith was the founder of this religion.
Mormon.
What were the large farms where cotton was grown called?
Plantations.
Where did John Brown raid?
Harpers Ferry.
True or false: Most early abolitionists were white.
True.
Define Manifest Destiny.
The right given by God to expand West.
Black leader of a rebellion that killed dozens of white people?
Nat Turner.
The women working in textile factories in Massachusetts.
The Mill Girls.
What did Sojourner Truth say in her "Ain't I a woman?" speech?
She talked about equality and human rights.
This group of people who organized to free the slaves?
The Abolitionists.
Who was Paul Bunyan?
A mythical American folk hero.
Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln.
Crops intended for sale and not for personal use.
Cash crops.
In 1808 African slave trade was outlawed but...
Slaves could still be bought and sold in America.
What was Lincoln's stance on slavery?
Opposed it but main goal was to preserve the Union.
In 2016, the United States Treasury announced that this person will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
Harriet Tubman.
Invention of Samuel Morse.
The telegraph.
Number of hours worked per day at textile mills.
12-14
What did Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed some 3 million slaves in the rebel states.
Fugitive Slave Act said what.
That escaped slaves had to be returned to owners.
Name one famous writer from the Antebellum period.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Henry Dana, Henry David Thoreau, and Francis Parkman.