Agricultural
Invention that to allowed farmers to cut through the hard-packed prairie sod.
What is the steel-tipped plow?
The inventor of the sewing machine.
Who is Elias Howe?
Inventor of the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
African American religious folk songs to raise spirits.
What are spirituals?
A new development or invention.
What is innovation?
Invention that sped up the harvesting of wheat.
What is the mechanical reaper?
The founders of Freedom's Journal.
Who are Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm?
Inventor of the first American steam-powered locomotive.
Who is Peter Cooper?
A network of safe houses own by people opposed to slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A group of workers with the same trade, or skill.
What is trade union?
What is the thresher?
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
An American inventor, who developed a system for sending coded messages instantly along electrical wires.
Who is Samuel Morse?
The person that the slaves feared the most.
Who is the overseer?
What is productivity?
The main crop grown in the 1800.
What is cotton?
African American who led a group of followers on a brief, violent rampage in Southampton County.
Who is Nat Turner?
Inventor of the steel-tipped plow.
Who is John Deere?
The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States.
What is domestic slave trade?
A farmer who owns a small farm.
What is yeomen?
The main economic activity.
What is wheat?
The founder of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The genius behind the invention of the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
African Americans who worked hard, earned no money, and had little hope of freedom.
What are slaves?
The ability to read and write.
What is literacy?