The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was an 1800s network of assisting escaped slaves on their path from plantations in the American south to freedom to this country.
What is Canada?
On June 1, 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, devoting her life to Methodism and this other cause.
What is the abolition of slavery?
This was the leading cause of death in Michigan soldiers.
What is disease?
Trees were chopped down and moved during the winter months because they were easier to move because of this reason.
What is the ground was covered in snow and ice?
This portion of Michigan was settled first.
What is the southern third?
This is the name of the 1850 act that ensured that even if slaves arrived in free states in the North, they could be captured and sent back to their slave masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
John Brown's father, Owen, worked as this.
What is a tanner?
Women served as these in the army during the Civil War.
What are field nurses?
This tree was highly sough after by loggers and became the state tree.
What is the White Pine?
These two products originally were the state's principal cash agricultural products.
What are wheat and wool?
The Northern sympathizers were known as this.
What are "Conductors?"
Because Brown believed in using violent means to end slavery, he became involved in the conflict that resulted from this act in 1854.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
The first action the 1st Michigan saw was this battle.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Each log was identified identified by these at the log mills.
What are log marks?
Michigan now leads the nation in the production of these two crops.
What are cherries and navy beans?
This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was Michigan's first Republican governor.
Who is Austin Blair?
Michigan’s governor, Austin Blair, agreed with this President that said southern forts belonged to the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first miners used these to travel to new mining locations in Michigan.
What are boats?
Tractor history properly began with the development of this.
What is steam power?
Sojourner Truth died in this Michigan town on November 26, 1883.
What is Battle Creek?
At age 12, Thomas Edison began publishing his own newspaper named this.
What is the Grand Trunk Herald?
The Civil War was a conflict that divided these.
What are families?
These buildings were built to crush rock so that metal seams and chunks could be separated from the poor rock before smelting.
What are great stamp mills?
Horses were fitted with special wide wooden shoes to prevent this from happening in the celery fields.
What is sinking?