African Americans
The route that slaves took to escape to freedom, involving conductors.
What is The Underground Railroad?
What is climate in the South?
The group focused on eliminating slavery.
What are abolitionists?
A devoted abolitionist who escaped from slavery and worked hard to stop it.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Unequal treatment based on a person's race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other characteristic.
What is discrimination?
What slaves were considered.
What is property?
The crop that the South completely depended on.
What is cotton?
The thing that was denied to woman in 1848.
What is control over property and wages?
He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The social separation of groups of people, especially by race.
What is segregation?
An African church that brought together American needs and African culture.
What are invisible churches?
The main business and mode of transportation in the North in the 1840's.
What are railroads?
He started a abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
A woman who guided over 70 slaves to freedom on The Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Someone who works to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices.
What is a reformer?
The main way that slaves rebelled, by breaking tools and slowing down work.
What is a passive act of rebellion?
Agrarians and farmers.
What were people in the South?
What two women worked together in the Women's Rights Reform?
Who is Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A Massachusetts man who was the Massachusetts supervisor of education, and the main leader of the education reform.
Who is Horace Mann?
A rebellion of enslaved people led by Nat Turner that took place in Virginia in 1831.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
A list of laws that Congress passed that allowed even harsher punishments on slaves.
What are slave codes?
the main mode of transportation in the South.
What are steamboats?
A law banning the Atlantic trade of enslaved people.
What is the law that congress passed in 1808?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The state of being subject to prolonged unjust treatment or control.
What is oppression?