New Industries & Inventions
Eli Whitney invented this famous machine to clean seeds from cotton much faster.
What is the cotton gin?
These large boats, powered by steam engines, made traveling up and down the Mississippi River much faster.
What are steamboats?
The Northern economy was based on factories, while the Southern economy was based on huge farms called this.
What are plantations?
This movement was made up of brave heroes who spoke out, protested, and fought to end slavery.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
He was elected President of the United States just before the Civil War began.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A person who purchases goods
What is a consumer?
This era was a time when people stopped making things by hand at home and started using machines in factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Human-made waterways built to connect rivers and lakes for shipping goods are called these.
What are canals?
To do the heavy farm work without paying workers, the South cruelly relied on this practice.
What is slavery?
She was a famous, incredibly brave "conductor" who led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
During the Civil War, the Northern states were known as the Union, and the Southern states were known as this.
What is the Confederacy?
To bring goods into a country to sell there
What is import?
This invention used electrical signals over wires to send messages quickly across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
Steam-powered locomotives traveled on these tracks, eventually connecting the country from coast to coast
What are railroads (or trains)?
The Southern economy grew completely dependent on planting and picking this fluffy white cash crop.
What is cotton?
This was not a real train, but a secret network of safe houses used to help enslaved people escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Because they thought President Lincoln would ban slavery, the Southern states decided to do this—meaning to officially break away from the United States.
What is secede?
How did the cotton mill come to North America?
Who is Samuel Slater?
Because of the boom in factory jobs, people moved from rural farms into these crowded areas.
What are cities?
This famous, human-made waterway connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and made New York a major trading center.
What is the Erie Canal?
The North had many of these large buildings, which hired immigrant workers to run machines and manufacture products.
What are factories (or mills)?
He escaped slavery and became a powerful speaker, writer, and leader who fought for freedom and equality.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
President Lincoln issued this famous document that declared all enslaved people in the Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The ___________________ freed slaves in the states that had seceded from the Union.
What is the emancipation proclamation?
The cotton gin was meant to make work easier, but it tragically had this negative effect on the South.
What is increasing the need for slavery?
Better transportation helped the United States economy grow because it made shipping these much cheaper and faster.
What are goods (or products/crops)?
The deep differences in their economies and the fierce arguments over slavery eventually led the North and South to fight this major conflict.
What is the Civil War?
She was a former enslaved woman who changed her name and traveled the country giving powerful speeches for both abolition and women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
After four years of fighting, the Civil War finally ended when this side won, keeping the country together and ending slavery.
What is the North (or the Union)?
The amendment that officially banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?