New Communities
This new invention helped improve transportation in Indiana by moving up and down large rivers.
steamboat
In these states, slavery was legal, meaning it was allowed.
Slave States
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War was known as....
Reconstruction
The period of time in the 1930's after the stock market crash became known as.....
The Great Depression
This is the right of all citizens to equal treatment.
Civil Rights
A large movement of people from one place to another.
Migration
Free States
The making of finished products from raw materials.
Manufacturing
Many people who worked suddenly lost their jobs due to the Great Depression. This loss of job is called
Unemployment
One of the most famous people of the Civil Rights Movement was....
Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1821, Indiana's capital city moved from Corydon to....
Indianapolis
These people wanted the government to end slavery in all states.
Abolitionists
Indiana women worked for ________, or the right to vote, as early as 1850.
Suffrage
A ______ is a share of ownership in a company.
Stock
The use of violence to promote a cause is known as...
Terrorism
Knox County
This was a series of secret routes to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
The Underground Railroad
This rail system connected rural areas with nearby cities and towns.
Interurban rail
Many people planted gardens and collected items to be recycled in an effort to help with the war. The government also limited what people could buy. This was called...
rationing
Jobs such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, bus drivers, hair stylists, etc. are all...
service industries
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the
________ removal act to make more land available for settlers...
Indian
In 1863, this President issued the Emancipation Proclamation which gave freedom to enslaved people.
President Lincoln
As industries grew in Indiana, many workers came together to fight to improve working conditions. They formed _____ ______.
Labor Unions
President Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with a plan called ___ _____ _____ which set up programs to give people jobs.
The New Deal
This astronaut was one of the first Americans to travel into space.
Gus Grissom