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Many people left this country to escape the potato famine.
What is Ireland?
The southern states seceded when this person was elected president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Inventions brought these to New York City. Many people moved to work at them.
What are factories?
This consisted of secret paths and safe spots to help slaves escape to freedom in the north.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A strong feeling.
What is a sentiment?
This waterway connected eastern and western New York.
This person invented the sewing machine.
Who is Isaac Singer?
What is a boomtown?
This army WON the Civil War.
What is the Union Army?
Tools, machines, and buildings that businesses use to produce goods.
What are capital resources?
Pencils were made in this New York town.
What is Ticonderoga?
She was best known for helping enslaved people travel north to freedom. She was also considered a spy.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A new tool or product that makes work easier.
What is an invention?
To free someone.
What is emancipate?
A government plan to select people to serve in the military.
What is a draft?
A meeting was held here to discuss equal rights for women.
What is Seneca Falls?
What did Sojourner Truth fight to abolish in the United States?
What is slavery?
This invention helped to keep the water level so boats could travel the Erie Canal.
What are locks?
Frederick Douglass created this newspaper.
The North Star
Money you pay to drive on a road.
What is a toll?
Name one state in the Union and one state in the Confederacy.
What is _______ and _______?
The people who work in factories.
What are human resources?
Henry Burden created this, which was a real time saver.
What is a horsehoe machine?
Women had this very important job in the Civil War.
What is a nurse?