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Age of Reform
Chapter 13 (North and South) and 14 (Age of Reform)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who led the slave rebellion? | Nat Turner |
| Who invented the steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| What is Morse Code? | Series of dots and dashes representing letters of the alphabet. |
| What was the purpose of Associated Press? | It was formed to speed up the spread of news. |
| What machine did Cyrus McCormick invent? | The Mechanical Reaper |
| Who were immigrants? | People who came to America in search of of freedom. They often settled in cities and found work in mills and factories. |
| What were working conditions like for immigrants? | Employees worked long days in dangerous conditions and suffered injuries because of it. People lost fingers and broke bones. |
| What is a strike? | People refused to work in order to put pressure on employers to improve working conditions. |
| What is discrimination? | Unfair treatment. |
| What was the first African American newspaper? | Freedom's Journal |
| What was an extreme shortage of food called? | A Famine |
| Who invented the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
| What were farmers who did not have slaves called? | Yeoman |
| What were Tenant Farmers? | They rented land on a landlord's estate. |
| What is slave code? | Laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people |
| Who led a rebellion among the slaves? | Nat Turner |
| Who was Harriet Tubman? | A woman born into Slavery and escaped to the North. She also was the best conductor of the Underground railroad. |
| What was the importance of the Underground Railroad? | It offered aid to enslaved people who escaped |
| What was the religious wave that stirred the nation in the 1700s? | The Second Great Awakening |
| What was Utopia? | A community based on a vision of a perfect society |
| What is Temperance? | Drinking little or no alcohol |
| What did Thomas Gallaudet do? | Founded Hartford school for the deaf |
| Who were transcendentalists? | Thinkers and writers |
| What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write? | The bestseller of the mid 1850s - Dealt with the injustice of slavery |
| What was The Liberator? | An Anti Slavery newspaper |
| Who was Fredrick Douglass? | An escaped slave who taught himself to read and write. He also helped women have the right to vote. |
| What is Suffrage? | The right to vote |
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