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History Test '09
Study Key People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Samuel Morse | inventor of the telegraph and Morse code |
| John Deere | inventor of the steel-tipped plow which aided the farmer in the great plains |
| Cyrus McCormick | inventor of the mechanical reaper |
| The Know-Nothing Party | a nativist anti-catholic society |
| Nat Turner | A slave who taught himself to read and write and led a revolt in South Carolina and killed 55 whites before being caught and hanged |
| Harriet Tubman | an escaped slave that was one of the main conductors of the Underground Railroad |
| Fredrick Douglass | A freed slave in the north that was against slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | born a slave in New York gained freedom when New York banished slavery |
| Henry David Thoreau | a transcendentalist that refused to pay a tax to support the Mexican-American war a was sent to jail |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States |
| Lucretia Mott | leader in the effort to fight for woman's movement |
| Susan B. Anthony | also a leader to fight for woman's rights |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | an female abolitionist that joined with Lucretia Mott to fight for woman's rights |