North and South Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Harriet Tubman | Guided more than 200 men, women, and children to freedom |
Nat Turner | an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County |
Frederick Douglass | an African-American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman |
Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton engine, was hoping his invention would lessen the need for slaves |
William Gregg | an ardent advocate of industrialization in antebellum Southern United States. In 1847 he founded the successful Graniteville Company |
John Brown | he choose to violently act against slavery and arm the slaves to create his own army. |
Dred Scott | an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom |
Abraham Lincon | thirteenth president of the U.S. wasn't an abolitionist, but he did not want slavery to spread west |
Jefferson Davis | president of the confederate states of america |
Stephen A. Douglas | nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature, but a forceful and dominant figure in politics |
Samuel Morse | inventor of the telegraph, which used a certain type of code which used a series of dots and dashes. |
John Deere | inventor of the lightweight steel plow |
Elias Howe | inventor of the sewing machine |
Cyrus McCormick | inventor of the mechanical reaper |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote hardships of the life of a slave |
Robert Fulton | inventor of the steam powered boat |
Roger Taney | a judge in the supreme court that denied Dred Scott's case, because he was still owned by a plantation owner. |
Solomon Northrup | lived twelve years in the life of a slave |
Preston Brooks | beat Charles Sumner nearly to death with a cane for saying nasty things about his cousin |
Charles Summner | was beat severely on the head before he could reach his feet, using a thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head, for saying bad things about a southerner's cousin |
Peter Cooper | inventor of the steam powered boat |
William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist that had a unique quality about him, he was white |
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