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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An American inventor who invented morse code. | Samuel Morse |
| Helped settlers on the Great Plains by inventing the steel-tipped plow which easily broke through the matted sod. | John Deere |
| A transcendentalist who refused to pay a tax to support the Mexican American War; he went to jail because of it. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Born in Virginia, he invented the Mechanical Reaper, which harvested grain quicker than by hand. | Cyrus McCormick |
| Named themselves the American Party, a group of nativists gathered together to form a party shunning immigrants. Members of the American Party usually answered their questions with "I know nothing" so they received a new name. | The Know-Nothing Party |
| Invented the cotton gin which sped up cotton production dramatically | Eli Whitney |
| 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 | Nat Turner |
| Born a slave in Maryland, she worked as a slave in a plantation when she escaped to the North using the Underground Railroad. She went back to the South to help other slaves escape. | Harriet Tubman |
| A freed slave in the North who talked with Garrison about how bad slavery was. | Frederick Douglas |
| Abolitionist who stimulated the growth of the antislavery movement and found his own newspaper, The Liberator. | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Originally named Isabella Baumfree, She changed her name after New York banished slavery and she was freed. | Sojourner Truth |
| Turned down by more than 20 medical schools, she graduated top of her class and was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| daughter of an abolitionist, she fought for women's rights | Susan B. Anthony |
| leader in the effort to fight for women's rights | Lucretia Mott |
| Abolitionist at the world antislavery convention, she joined with Lucretia Mott to help with women's movement | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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