| A | B |
|---|
| Frederick Douglass | freed slave helped lead the abolition movement |
| fishing | good business for northerners |
| clipper ships | helped speed goods around the world |
| Samuel Morse | demonstrated the telegraph |
| Charles Goodyear | made rubber stronger |
| Elias Howe | made a faster sewing machine |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the reaper which revolutionized farming |
| midwest cities | became railroad and factory hubs |
| the south | a vast cotton growing region |
| slave codes | laws that tightened owners' control over slaves |
| resistance | slaves resisted their owners in many ways (can you think of three) |
| discrimination | the unfair treatment of a group of people compared with another group |
| nativism | the belief that immigrants threaten traditional American culture and institutions |
| Know-Nothing Party | a nativist political party |
| trade union | a group of people who try to improve wages and working conditions |
| strike | employees refuse to work hoping to improve their working conditions |
| social reform | to make society better and more fair for everyone |
| Horace Mann | the Father of Public Education |
| Thomas Gallaudet | opened a school for deaf students |
| Samuel Howe | opened a school for the blind |
| Dorothea Dix | worked with the mentaly ill and those in prison |
| temperance | moderation in drinking habits |
| utopias | perfect societies |
| emancipation | freeing of slaves |
| abolition | putting an end to slavery |
| colonization | an idea to send freed slaves to Africa |
| William Lloyd Garrison | published the Liberator |
| the Grimke Sisters | Quaker abolitionists |
| Sojurner Truth | abolitionist who sometimes spoke with Frederick Douglass |
| David Walker | abolitionist who urged slaves to fight for their freedom |
| Underground Railroad | secret network of people to move slaves to freedom |
| gag rule | barred ddebate on slavery in Congress |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | asked that women be given full rights |
| Lucretia Mott | helped organize the first women's rights convention |
| Seneca Falls Convention | meeting to draft the Declaration of Sentiments |
