Reformers
He was a leading preacher of the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Finney?
This invention of Eli Whitney dramatically increased cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
Ways of resisting slavery included breaking tools, working slowly, small theft, and this. Cough, cough.
What is pretending to be sick?
This compromise led to the formation of two states. One was Maine and the other was called this.
What is Missouri?
This battle in Pennsylvannia became the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
He published the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Many factories in the North were powered by this.
What is steam?
An escaped slave, this woman made 19 trips into the Souith and an Underground Railroad conductor.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The 1857 Dred Scot decision of the Supreme Court said that African Americans are this not citizens.
What is property?
This side of the war had a huge population advantage--22 million versus 9 million.
What is the North?
Reform movements to end slavery eventually led to a movement for this group's rights.
Who are women?
This form of transportation was a major advantage for the North during the Civil War.
What are railroads?
He became a leading abolitionist leader and author. He also wrote Men of Color to Arms!
Who is Frederick Douglass?
These debates were focused on the problem of the expansion of slavery West. They are named after these two participants.
Who are Lincoln and Douglas?
After the Battle of Antietam Lincoln issued this document freeing slaves in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
In 1848 this gathering launched the organized women's rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Southerners, especially those who owned large plantations, believed they needed these to produce cotton.
What are slaves?
Free African Americans faced severe forms of this in the North.
What is discrimination?
His raid on Harper's Ferry was and attempt to spark a slave rebellion. It didn't work.
Who is John Brown?
African American troops from this regiment showed great valor and courage at the Battle of Fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
The Declaration of Sentiments echoed this important American document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Dug by hand in the 1820s this canal connected the Great Lakes and New York. It is now a major route for cycling and hikers.
What is the Erie Canal?
Nat Turner led one Revolt in 1831, it became the most famous form of this type of uprising.
What is slave?
This work of literature shaped public opinion and accelerated the demand for change.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This speech by Lincoln, only a little over 2 minutes long, is perhaps the greatest speech ever given in U. S. history.
What is the Gettysburg Address?