Technology
Slavery
Reform
Slavery II
100

These were mainly in the North, due in part to the large supply of immigrant laborers who found work there.

Factories

100

Although considered legally “free” in Northern states, black people faced discrimination and feared laws such as the Fugitive Slave Law, which allowed some to be:

Taken to the South and enslaved/re-enslaved.

100

A religious movement, known as the Second Great Awakening, caused some Americans to reconsider their beliefs and attempt to find ways to reform their:

Laws/society/government

100

Abolitionists were people who fought to do THIS:

End slavery in the United States

200

Communication speed improved during this era (and during the Civil War) due to the use of THIS:

The telegraph
200

Landless southerners were near the bottom of the South’s social structure, as they did not produce wealth in a society that depended on profit from:

Land/cash crops/cotton

200

Supporters of THIS met at Seneca Falls in order to explain their beliefs and inspire others to join their cause:

Women's rights/equal treatment under the law/voting

200

In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that black Americans were not THIS, and had no civil rights. 

Citizens

300

This event began with the use of interchangeable parts, which allowed factories to make tools and machines (and to repair them) much more efficiently.

Industrialization

300

Slave Codes were laws designed to control THIS, even if an enslaved person was given permission to leave a plantation by their owner. 

Travel/movement of slaves in the South

300

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the name of a novel that convinced many to do THIS.

Support abolition

300

Frederick Douglass  was a famous speaker and writer whose autobiography helped to convince many people to:

Support the abolition of slavery

400

Both sides in the Civil War made use of new ironclads, which were much more durable than THESE, which were in common use at the time. 

Wooden ships

400

THESE were often unsuccessful, due to the lack of resources and weapons owned by the slaves. This did not prevent some, such as Nat Turner, from trying to accomplish them in spite of great risk.

Slave rebellions

400

The Emancipation Proclamation only attempted to free the slaves in THESE states.

Confederate 

500

These were less commonly used for transportation in the South (as opposed to the North) due to the relative lack of cities, factories, and population there.

Railroads

500

The American Colonization Society attempted to do this, which, although unsuccessful, led to the creation of the nation of Liberia

Allow enslaved people to migrate to Africa

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