Lesson 20
The South had the right weather for farming most crops, but the North couldn't farm as much crops because it had.
What is long, cold winters, and short, hot summers
In the 1860's the South invented their first machine to make farming cotton more efficient.
What is the Cotton Gin.
Free African Americans and Slaves were both faced with what challenge throughout their lives.
What is racism and discrimination
This free African American women helped the enslaved in the South travel to the North safely to become free.
Who is Harriet Tubman.
A person whose wealth comes from ownership of businesses and favors government politics that support industry.
What is an industrialist.
The North had the right Geography for which jobs.
What is shipbuilding, fishing, and commerce
This type of water transportation became one of the North's fastest ways to ship good by water.
What is a Steamboat.
What was the name of how the slaves were able to break free from the South to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad.
This person spent her life fighting for conditions of prisons to be improved.
Who is Dorothea Dix.
A person who favors a life of agriculture and supports politics that are about agriculture interests.
What is an agrarian.
The South had one thing specifically about the law that the North didn't have anymore, What was different about the Norths law.
The ban of slavery in the North.
The South had different types of farming land, but what type of farms had working slaves.
What is a plantation.
What is a person that oversees slaves while working on the plantations.
What is an Overseer.
This enslaved man killed at least 57 people with axes and guns to try to escape from slavery.
Who is Nat Turner.
These people supported the ending of slavery in the North and South in thee 1830s.
What is an abolitionists.
The North's society had rich business owners, free American Americans, and working families. But they also had one more group.
What are immigrants.
What was the South's most highly priced cash crop.
What is Cotton.
A type of celebration that women held on Saturday nights before their job was done.
What are "quilting parties".
This free African American male spoke out about the ending of slavery for the ones who didn't have the rights to.
Who is Fredrick Douglass.
The dramatic change in the economies and culture about switching the way supplies were made by hand to using machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution.
The North's transportation had railroads, a highway, and rivers. The North had one main form of transportation.
What are natural waterways.
What was the South able to grow that the North was not able to grow.
What is sugarcane, tobacco, cotton, rice, and indigo.
A person who would teach slave to be more humble and obedient before being able to go back to work on the plantations.
What is a "slave breaker".
This man fought for everyone to have an education no matter if they were wealthy or not.
Who is Horace Mann.
A person who believes it would be better if we went beyond
What is transcendentalism