A | B |
manufacturing | the industry that become more important to the North in the 1850s |
abolitionists | people who wanted to end slavery in the U.S. |
Underground Railroad | a secret route that helped slaves escape to freedom |
enslaved African Americans | responsible for picking/cleaning most of the cotton in the South |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Stephen Douglas | Presidential candidate who supported states' rights in 1860 |
Nat Turner | a slave who led an uprising against slave owners |
William Lloyd Garrison | an abolitionist who started The Liberator |
Lucretia Mott | One of the leaders of the Seneca Falls Convention |