A | B |
Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
Lucretia Mott | Worked with Stanton for women's rights |
Nineteenth Century | the 1800's |
Field Slave | worked from sunrise to sunset |
House Slave | better living conditions than Field Slaves |
Nat Turner | led the only effective slave revolt |
Slave Rebellion | Slave owners feared |
Silent Resistance | breaking tools, playing stupid, damaging crops |
Abolition | The movement to end slavery |
Agriculture | Southern enonomy was based on |
Manufacturing | Northern economy was based on |
Free States | Northern states |
Slave States | Southern States |
Northern States | Slavery illegal |
Southern States | Slavery legal |
William Lloyd Garrison | publisher of an abolitionist newspaper |
The Liberator | Title of Garrison's newspaper |
Frederick Douglass | runaway slave who became a major abollitionist |
Sojourner Truth | escaped slave, wrote "ain't I a women" speech |
Underground Railroad | above ground series of escape routes for slaves from the south to the north |
Harriet Tubman | most well known conductor of Underground Rail Road |
Conductor | fed and hid slaves from slave hunters |
Forty Thousand Dollars | Reward for Tubman's capture |
Industrial Revolution | factory tools replaced hand tools |
Improved Transportation | a result of the Industrial Revolution |
Womens Suffrage | right to vote |
Declaration of Sentiments | modeled after the Declaration of Independence |
Seneca Falls Convention | meeting of women who demanded equal rights |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leader of the Suffrage Movement |
Increased Slave Labor | result ot the cotton gin invention |