North & South
Vocab
Reform
slavery
People
100

Based on agriculture.

What is the South's economy?

100

Unequal treatment that is based on a person’s race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other characteristic.

What is racism?

100

People who supported the ending of slavery.

What is a abolitionists?

100

The social separation of groups of people, especially by race

What is segregation?

100

The maker of the cotton gin.

Who is Eli Whitney?

200

Experienced all four different seasons.

What is the North?

200

A large area of privately owned land where crops are grown through the labor of enslaved people.

What is a plantation

200

A message that people could be forgiven by god if they did good deeds.

What is the Second Great Awakening?

200

Conditions people worked which was from dawn to dark tending crops, shuck corn, clean cotton, and other things, as they worked from the age of six until they died. 

What are Working Conditions like?

200

Made 13 trips on the Underground Railroad and freed an estimate of 70 people.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

300

The use of steamboats, roads, and trains to get around.

What is the North?

300

A secret network of free Black people and White people who helped thousands of people escape slavery and go to states without slavery and Canada. 

What is the Underground Railroad?

300

The gathering of supporters of women’s rights in July 1848 that launched the movement for women’s right to vote.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

300

People live in one room log huts that had no floor no windows and a small fireplace and about ten to a dozen people would live together as they only had beds made of straw.

What are Living Conditions like?

300

In 1831, a religious White man, an abolitionist created a newspaper called The Liberator.

Who is William Lloyd Garrison?

400

The economy that's based on the use of machine and factors to make goods.

What is the North's economy?  

400

A person wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry.

Who is a industrialist?

400

In 1853, a College in Ohio was the third American college to admit Black students and in 1860 it created a policy that made sure no student would be rejected because of their race.

What is Antioch College?

400

To keep enslaved people under control some enslavers used harsh punishments such as beating, whipping, branding, sexual violence, and other forms of torture—to maintain them.

What are acts of Control?

400

In 1831, an enslaved man led an uprising in Virginia and about half a dozen followed him as they set out to kill every White person they could find and were successful in killing 57 people over a period of two days.

Who is Nat Turner?

500

The South's perfect climate for growing crops.

What is long hot summer and short mild winters?

500

Making changes in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices.

What is reform?

500

A Boston woman stated "I proceed … to call your attention to the present state of insane persons, confined … in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!"

Who is Dorothea Dix?

500

People pretending to be ignorant, clumsy, sick, or mentally ill to get out of work others and some would break tools, and work so sloppily, while others who worked in the house would sneak food out of the kitchen.

What are acts of Resistance?

500

A free Black man who was speaking at a meeting of abolitionists later got invited to travel the country to speak about abolition, and soon after became a leader in the abolitionist movement. His autobiography was published in 1845.

Who is Frederick Douglass?