Early Pennsylvania Industries
Society in the Early Commonwealth
Civil War and Reconstruction
Historic Landmarks
Vocabulary
100
This section of railway allowed trains to cross the Allegheny Mountains.
What is the Horseshoe Curve?
100
James Forten, Robert Purvis, John and George Vashon, and Ovtavius Catto.
Who are the African Americans that led the fight against slavery?
100
A plan for rebuilding of the South.
What is Reconstruction?
100
The growth of industry in the United States depended on this.
What is coal?
100
The people decide which goods and services to produce.
What is a market economy?
200
Used to fuel trains and steam boats, run factories, and heat homes.
What is anthracite coal?
200
A white woman, a Quaker minister, a teacher, and leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who was Lucretia Mott?
200
To remind people of the American Revolution.
What is why President Abraham Lincoln came to Gettysburg?
200
The Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial.
What is what was built to honor the Civil War veterans?
200
Groups that aim to improve the workplace.
What is a labor unions?
300
Places that were; an early center of the iron industry, the shipbuilding industry, and the states agricultural center.
What is the Schuylkill Valley, Erie, and the Piedmont areas?
300
This required free schools for poor children in Pennsylvania.
What is The Constitution of 1790?
300
January 1, 1863.
What is when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect?
300
One of the most famous landmarks in Pennsylvania.
What is Gettysburg National Military Park?
300
Changes to improve society.
What is social reform?
400
By replacing home crafts in the making of cloth, textiles, furniture, farm tools, and mass production machines.
What is how growing industries changed where people worked?
400
The Free School Act.
What is what helped to set up public education?
400
Money, weapons, uniforms, food, and railroad transportation.
What is how Pennsylvanians supported the Union?
400
Statues and carvings around the monument honor Pennsylvanians who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is The Pennsylvania Monument?
400
A group of people with the same point of view about many issues.
What is a political party?
500
Robert Porter and William Still.
Who led the Underground Railroad?
500
They sold everything, had little money, and few skills.
What is the reason immigrants accepted low-paying jobs?
500
The Wilmot Proviso.
What is what was the turning point of the Civil War?
500
He was a key figure in events leading to the Civil War and the only Pennsylvanian to serve as President.
Who was James Buchanan?
500
One that changes little over time where people spend most of their time growing food for themselves and their family.
What is a traditional economy?
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