Section 1
A machine that would remove seeds from shirt-staple cotton.
What is a cotton gin?
Thousand of slaves were released for their service in this war.
What is the War of 1812?
His rebellion was the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history.
Who was Nat Turner?
She was a celebrated conductor on the Underground railroad who helped an estimated 300 slaves escape to freedom in the North.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This occurred on November 11,1831.
What is Nat Turner's execution?
This was a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
In the South, free blacks were denied the right of testifying in court, receiving an education, and this right.
What is voting?
This was the name of the revolt started by African captives in 1839.
What is the Amistad mutiny?
He built the first cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Cotton production was on the rise late in this decade.
What is the 1790s?
A huge band of cotton farms stretching across the southern U.S. as far west as Texas.
What is the cotton belt?
3,400 African Americans owned slaves in this year.
What is 1840?
A network of Americans who opposed slavery from New York to San Francisco.
What is the Underground Railroad?
He organized one of the first great slave revolts.
Who is Gabriel Prosser?
They had some of the most difficult jobs on plantations.
What are field hands?
This was the name for the period before the Civil War.
What is the antebellum period?
Most of the black residents of this future state were escaped slaves who had fled to the area in the early 1800s.
What is Florida?
They helped smuggle fugitives to safety.
Who are conductors?
He established an important pass through the Sierra Nevadas.
Who is James Beckwourth?
These are emotional songs that often express religious beliefs.
What are spirituals?
The sale and transportation of slaves within the U.S.
What is the domestic slave trade?
Voting rights were never limited for black men in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and this state.
What is Maine?
This was the name of the resettlement of black people in African.
What is colonization?
He was a black settler who was elected mayor of Los Angeles in the 1790s.
Who is Francisco Reyes?
The congressional ban on the importation of slaves into the United States went into effect on this date.
What is January 1, 1808?