Inventions/Inventors
Removes seeds from cotton fibers
What is cotton gin
Led the most famous slave revolt in 1831, killing more than 60 whites in the process.
Who is Nat Turner?
Widespread starvation.
What is famine?
The first African American newspaper established in New York, United States
What is the "Freedom Journal"?
The year America's first steam locomotive was invented.
What is 1830?
A machine that could sew seams in fabric.
What is a sewing machine?
Americans who wanted to preserve the country for white protestant-born Americans; often disliked foreign immigration.
Who are nativists?
A channel dug across land and filled with water.
What is a canal?
The first long distance stone road in the United States.
What is the Lancaster Turnpike?
Missouri had been seeking admission into the union since this date.
What is 1817?
Built America's first steam locomotive.
Who is Peter Cooper?
Group of people who dominated the southern cotton kingdom.
Who are large planters?
The denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people.
What is discrimination?
Laws that controlled every aspect of an enslaved person's life.
What are slave codes?
The year the America's slave population was recorded to be nearly 4 million.
What is 1860?
Fled to America seeking refuge following unsuccessful revolutions in their country.
Who are Germans?
The general area of the U.S. Irish and German immigrants migrated to when they immigrated.
What is the West or Midwest?
How American settlers heading west reached their new homes.
What is they used backcountry paths and trails?
It became illegal to import any new slaves into the United States this year.
Built the first functional steamboat, the Clermont, in 18071
Who is Robert Fulton?
These were built to raise or lower boats in a canal.
What are locks?
What the Missouri Compromise established regarding slave states in free states in 1820.
What is Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, and Maine would be admitted as a free state?
The opening and operation of the Erie Canal began this year.
What is 1825?