Lesson 20
On July 19, 1848, nearly 300 people, including 40 men arrived at this event.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This place provided the best agricultural soil in the world.
What is the Central Plains?
This person's main responsibility was to supervise enslaved people on large plantations.
What is an overseer?
The social separation of groups of people, especially by race.
What is segregation?
This woman was known for guiding fugitives from slavery to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This invention made slavery more important to the South.
What is the cotton gin?
Both enslaved African Americans and free African Americans experienced this.
What is racism and discrimination?
A person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This man escaped enslavement and became an important person in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
Most white children, especially boys attended these.
What are free public schools?
By the 1840s this was the North's biggest business.
What are railroads?
Southern states responded to rebellions by passing making these even stricter.
What are "slave codes"?
A person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests.
What is an agrarian?
This man is known for his invention of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Fredrick Douglass spread his message of freedom for all people trough these.
What are newspapers?
This event influenced farming in the North by increasing the rate agricultural goods could be produced.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This person wrote, "The dark night of slavery closed in upon me,"
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
A person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial business and who favors government policies the support industry.
This woman was one of the first to try to improve the conditions for prisoners and people with mental illnesses.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
After Dorothea Dix pushed for people with mental illnesses to have better rights, the law makers created these for those people.
What are public asylums?
The Southern coast was a great place for growing these crops because of its swamps and marshes.
What is sugarcane and rice?
Most enslaved people were more likely to receive this than White Southerners.
What is medical care?
A philosophy emphasizing people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding with the help of emotions and intuition.
What is transcendentalism?
This woman was told she was not allowed to speak at a women's convention in New York.This lead her to become active in the women's rights movement.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?