People
This person led over 300 people out of slavery and encouraged thousands more
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This invention allowed people to move West in less than a week, instead of many months.
What was the railroad?
Large groups of people went west on this "trail," in covered wagons.
What was the Oregon Trail?
Name 2 things the south needed to make money.
land for plantations (cotton, tobacco, indigo, rice)
slave labor
This person wrote a best-selling novel about the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This invention separated the seeds from the cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This group of people made trails through the Rocky Mountains while they worked.
Who were the fur traders?
Name 3 things the north needed to make money
factories
railroads
telegraph
canals
This person was considered a hero in the north and a terrorist in the south.
Who is John Brown?
This invention connected 2 bodies of water.
What is a canal?
People all over the world came to California for this reason.
What was the Gold Rush?
Name 3 things the West needed to make money.
land for farming
railroads
telegraph
canals
This person was responsible for the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This invention was housed in large buildings and made it a lot faster to get work done.
What is a factory?
This event gave the U.S. the land from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the Mexican-American War?
This law made it a crime to help someone escape slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This person had U.S. soldiers taunt Mexican soldiers in disputed territory to start the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
This invention turned cotton into thread, and thread into cloth.
What is the power loom?
What the Cherokee and other Native Americans called this long forced march.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This person tried to lead an armed revolt of enslaved people.
Who is John Brown?
This person became the "face of freedom" for enslaved people in the south.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This invention allowed people to get messages to others quickly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
How many people are estimated to have joined the wagon trains moving west across the continent?
What is 400,000?
This person sued for his freedom after being held in a "free state" for some time.
Who is Dred Scott?
This invention was meant to reduce slavery, but instead it dramatically increased it.
What is the cotton gin?
This place's nickname describes the horrible violence it endured as it prepared to vote to be a free or slave state.
The cotton gin separated the seed from the cotton how much faster than a person could do it?
What is 50 times faster?