Vocabulary
Another name for a train
What is a locamotive?
This means to separate from the United States
What does it mean to secede?
This waterway made travel and transportation of goods faster and easier
What is the Erie Canal?
During the Industrial Revolution, before they had laws to protect them, this group was forced to work at young ages to earn money for their families
Who were the children?
A violent protest
What is a riot?
This machine sent messages from one machine to another over wires
What is a telegraph?
A man-made waterway
What is a canal?
After four years of fighting, this was the result of the Civil War in 1865 (tell at least 2 things)
The war ended, the Union was saved, and slavery ended everywhere in the United States
This allowed people and goods to be transported faster through areas where water travel was not possible
What is the development of the railroad?
This is a person who wants to end slavery
What is an abolitionist?
A way to force people into the military
What is a draft?
This is region in which people use the same time
What is a time zone?
A land that lies beyond settled land
What is a frontier
This was the event caused by the British capturing American trading ships and forcing American sailors to work on British ships.
What was the War of 1812?
This man was responsible for building the Erie Canal
Who was DeWitt Clinton?
By 1827, NY had freed this group
Enslaved People ............................................................................................banna
This is land where the Native American's were forced to live and work
What is a reservation?
This man invented the telegraph
Who was Samuel F.B.Morse?
A road built by a private company who charged people to use the road
What is a turnpike?
This is a war between two groups of people from the same country
What is a civil war?
The Erie canal connected these two cities
What are Albany and Buffalo?
Daily Double: Woman who fought for Women's Rights and went on marches were called this
What were Suffragists?
These enable a boat to pass from a section of a canal at one water level to another section at a different water level
What are locks?
This is a time when many machines were invented and put to use
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is the use of new ideas and knowledge to do things
What is technology?
This is why the south wanted to leave the United States and form their own country called the Confederate States of America
They wanted to keep slavery legal
This man developed the first steamboat
Who was Robert Fulton?
This was a system of secret routes along which runaway slaves could find safe stops on the way to the North and freedom
What was the Underground Railroad?
The large movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
This is why many people moved to cities during the Industrial Revolution
What is to work in factories?
This is a company which uses machines to make cloth
What is a textile?
Shots fired at Fort Sumter were the beginning of this war between the Union and the Confederate States
What is the Civil War
This is how the telegraph changed the way people communicated
They could send quick short messages over long distances without traveling
This was the first Women's Rights Convention in the United States
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Daily Double: In the United States, this is the highest law in the land, it is also a plan for government
What is the constitution?
This set up a system of free public schools in NY
What was the Common School Act?