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USI U7: The West
Inventions and Movements
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Who is a person that is the first to think of or make something? | inventor |
| Who is a person that organizes resources for goods and services in hopes of making a profit? | entrepreneur |
| Who invented the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
| What machine picked seeds and stems out of cotton, which made producing cotton much faster? | cotton gin |
| Who invented the reaper? | Cyrus McCormick |
| Who helped with the invention of the reaper? | Jo Anderson |
| What machine made harvesting crops much faster? | reaper |
| Who improved the steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| What invention connected Southern farms to Northern factories and Western territories? | steamboat |
| What provided for faster land transportation? | steam locomotive |
| What was the movement that called for the end of slavery? | abolition |
| ___________ to end slavery included that it was morally wrong, cruel, inhumane, and violated democracy. | reasons |
| Who led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| Who wrote a newspaper called The Liberator, which supported abolition? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Who escaped slavery and wrote a newspaper called The North Star? | Frederick Douglass |
| What movement called for equality in basic rights for women? | Women's Rights |
| This included the right to vote, own property, and have equal opportunities in business and education | examples of women's rights |
| This word means the right to vote | suffrage |
| Who was a former enslaved African American that advocated for equality and justice? | Sojourner Truth |
| Who pushed for equal rights and voting for women? | Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| What was the name of the meeting where supporters for women's rights met to support the Declaration of Sentiments? | Seneca Falls Convention |
| What was the document that said, "All men and women are created equal" and called for equal rights for women? | Declaration of Sentiments |
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