Underground Railroad
This guided the fugitive slaves by night.
What is the Big Dipper/drinking gourd?
It was built to remove seeds from cotton bolls.
What is cotton gin?
A license or trademark a creator gets to protect their creation.
What is a patent?
This required all Indians to move westward.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
The number of Indians that died on the "Trail of Tears".
What is 4000?
What is passengers?
The seeds were removed this way before the invention of the cotton gin.
What is by hand?
Someone bound by contract to work for another for a time period.
What is an indentured servant?
The amount of money the Indians were to be paid for leaving their land.
What is $5.7 million?
The increased demand for cotton led to an increased demand of this labor.
What is slave or enforced labor?
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
What is 1793?
Courageous men and women who went South to encourage slaves to run away from their owners.
What are pilots?
The territory the Indians were forced to travel to.
What is Indian/Oklahoma?
He created an alphabet which led to a bilingual newspaper being published.
Who is Sequoyah?
The Industrial Revolution started here first.
What is England?
Individuals who helped escaped slaves once they were in free states.
Who are brakemen?
Gold, prime land & real estate are examples.
What is why people wanted to own land in N. Georgia?
Known for her spool of thread patent.
Who is Hannah Slater?
The people that set up reservations for runaway slaves.
Who are ticket agents?
Market for southern cotton, unskilled can find work, often cheaper to manufacture items, Middle class could now afford manufactured items and a better standard of living were the examples.
What are pros of the Industrial Revolution?
An individual or family who provided a hiding place for fugitive slaves.
What is stationmasters?
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminoles are examples.
What are civilized tribes?
Forced to leave homes, crops, etc., Forced to leave ancestors, 18,000 began and over 4,000 died on trip
Families were split apart, Physical pain-sickness, bloody bare feet, Weather-winter’s bitter cold, no shelter, Months of hard travel, Food had worms and spoiled are examples.
What is why Cherokees call the move westward "Trail of Tears?