Geography
This term describes loyalty to a specific section or part of the country rather than the nation as a whole.
What is Sectionalism?
Eli Whitney’s invention that removed seeds from fiber, which accidentally increased the growth of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This religious revival in the early 1800s inspired people to improve society and their own spiritual lives.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This former slave taught himself to read and write and published a newspaper called The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
This term refers to the right to vote, which was a major goal for 19th-century feminists.
What is Suffrage?
Because of its fertile soil and large plantations, this region’s economy was based almost entirely on agriculture
What is the South?
These "standard" parts could be used on different machines, making mass production much easier.
What are Interchangeable Parts?
Horace Mann is known as the leader of this reform, calling for public schools with better-trained teachers.
What is Education?
This "conductor" on the Underground Railroad was nicknamed "Moses" for leading around 70 people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1848 meeting in New York was the first public meeting about women’s rights held in the U.S.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
While the South opposed them, the North wanted these taxes on imported goods to protect their local factories.
What are Tariffs?
This invention by Cyrus McCormick made the harvesting of grain much faster and cheaper.
What is the Mechanical Reaper?
Dorothea Dix campaigned for special hospitals for this group of people instead of throwing them in prison
What is the Mentally Ill?
He was a white abolitionist who started the famous anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.
Who is William Llyod Garrison?
This document, written at Seneca Falls, was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This "rush" for a precious metal led to a massive surge of settlement in the West.
What is the Gold Rush?
This new form of transportation replaced boats powered by wind and made shipping goods cheaper.
What is the Steamboat?
Led by Lyman Beecher, this movement urged people to stop drinking alcohol to solve social problems.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This famous female abolitionist and women's rights activist gave the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
These two women were the primary organizers and planners of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucreita Mott?
These artificial waterways, like the famous one in New York, were built to unite the East and the West.
What are Canals?
Samuel Morse’s invention used electric signals over wires to transmit messages instantly.
What is the Telegraph?
This was the term for the immediate freeing of all enslaved people.
What is Emancipation?
These two sisters from South Carolina moved North to write and speak against the slavery they saw growing up.
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
In 1890, this was the first state to finally grant women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?