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100

The Leader of the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman. 

100

What was the machine that helped clean cotton?

The cotton gin.

100

Famous battle in Texas?

Tha Alamo

100

People who worked for somebody and had no freedoms.

Slaves.

100

Define Antebellum. 

Before War.

200

John Smith was the founder of this religion.

Mormon.

200

What were the large farms where cotton was grown called?

Plantations.

200

Where did John Brown raid?

Harpers Ferry.

200

True or false: Most early abolitionists were white.

True.

200

Define Manifest Destiny.

The right given by God to expand West.

300

Black leader of a rebellion that killed dozens of white people?

Nat Turner.

300

The women working in textile factories in Massachusetts. 

The Mill Girls.

300

What did Sojourner Truth say in her "Ain't I a woman?" speech?

She talked about equality and human rights.

300

This group of people who organized to free the slaves?

The Abolitionists.

300

Who was Paul Bunyan?

A mythical American folk hero.

400

Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln. 

400

Crops intended for sale and not for personal use.

Cash crops.

400

In 1808 African slave trade was outlawed but...

Slaves could still be bought and sold in America.

400

What was Lincoln's stance on slavery?

Opposed it but main goal was to preserve the Union.

400

In 2016, the United States Treasury announced that this person will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

Harriet Tubman.

500

Invention of Samuel Morse.

The telegraph.

500

Number of hours worked per day at textile mills.

12-14

500

What did Emancipation Proclamation do?

Freed some 3 million slaves in the rebel states.

500

Fugitive Slave Act said what.

That escaped slaves had to be returned to owners.

500

Name one famous writer from the Antebellum period.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Henry Dana, Henry David Thoreau, and Francis Parkman.