Important Names
A celebrated conductor on the Underground Railroad and one of the best-known conductors. She escaped slavery as a young woman and helped an estimated 300 enslaved people to freedom in the North.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Cotton production was on the rise late in this decade.
What was the late 1790s?
A machine that would remove seeds from short-staple cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
The period before the Civil War.
What was the Antebellum Period?
A network of Americans who opposed slavery from New York to San Francisco. It grew into a revolutionary organization.
What was the Underground Railroad?
Launched an uprising in Southampton County, Virginia with seven other enslaved people.
Who was Nat Turner?
Thousands of enslaved people were released for their service in the War of this year.
What was 1812?
Built the first cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This was the sale and transportation of enslaved people within the U.S.
What was the domestic slave trade?
A leading conductor and fierce opponent of slavery who is believed to have helped more than 2,000 enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who was Levi Coffin?
Two enslaved people exposed his plot to storm the arsenal in Richmond.
Who was Gabriel Prosser?
Nat Turner was executed on this date.
What was November 11, 1831?
A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The voting rights of African American men were never limited in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and this other state.
What was Maine?
The resettlement of African Americans in Africa.
What was colonization?
Established an important pass through the Sierra Nevada to California.
Who was James Beckwourth?
African captives began a revolt known as the Amistad Mutiny in this year.
What was 1839?
A huge band of cotton farms stretching across the southern U.S. as far west as Texas.
What was the cotton belt?
In the South, Free African Americans were denied the basic rights of testifying in court, receiving an education, and this other basic right.
What was voting?
A type of cloth or woven fabric.
What is textile?
Enslaved African American and personal servant of William Clark.
Who was York?
The largest acquisition of land was purchased from France by President Thomas Jefferson in this year.
What was 1803?
Relating to or characterized by industry.
What is industrial?
This man and 9,000 African American rebels planned to attack guardhouses and arsenals in Charleston, S.C. in the summer of 1822.
Who was Denmark Vesey?
An act of saving or being saved from danger or distress.
What is rescue?