Inventions
This invention helped remove seed from cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This person invented a machine that made cotton seed removal a quicker process.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The group of people were typically left to roam the boat freely.
Who are children?
Slavery rose because of this event.
What is the cotton boom?
A network of hiding places for fugitives or escaped slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Women that took care of the children of the family.
What are nurses?
A person that fights to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
First full-size-sized commercial steamboat
What is the Clermont?
This former slave helped other slaves escape through a underground system.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Blended African and European music to express religious beliefs.
to formally withdraw
What is secede?
This invention helped produce muskets at a quicker rate.
What are interchangeable parts?
This person led the most violent revolt in the country.
Who is Nat Turner?
What is family and religion?
Made it a crime to help runaway slaves
What is fugitive slave act?
A device that could send information over wires across great distances.
What is the telegraph?
This woman compiled a slave stories into a book known as Uncle Toms Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Stories that often had a moral, to teach lessons how to survive under slavery.
What are folktales?
Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?