| A | B |
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| Canal | a waterway dug across land. |
| Erie Canal | a canal of more than 350 miles in length that connects Buffalo on Lake Erie with Troy on the Hudson River. This helped to increase trade and made traveling quicker and cheaper. |
| Technology | the use of new ideas and knowledge to do things. |
| Robert Fulton | the inventor of the steamboat. |
| Locomotive | train engine used to move railroad cars. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | a woman's rights meeting organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (1848) |
| Abolitionists | people who wanted to abolish (end) slavery in the United States. |
| Frederick Douglas | a former slave settled in Rochester where he began an antislavery newspaper The North Star. |
| Harriet Tubman | an escaped slave who helped slaves escape from the South via the Underground Railroad (a series of safe houses). |
| Secede | to separate from. |
| The U.S. Civil War | a war between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South) fought from 1861-1865. |
| Immigration | moving from one country to another. |
| Ellis Island | an immigration center from 1892-1954 |
| Tenements | rundown apartment buildings where many immigrants lived. |
| Industrial Revolution | the dramatic change from making goods by hand at home to making them by machines in factories. |
