Important People and Inventions

Removed seeds from sticky cotton fibers. 

Made it much more profitable to grow cotton than before.

• Cotton Gin

• Steam Locomotive

• Steamboat

• Telegraph

Made transportation and traveling across land faster. 

Could pull trains up and down hills easily. 

Made it easy to transport goods/materials, cities grew around new factors 

• Cotton Gin

• Steam Locomotive

• Steamboat

• Telegraph

Made transportation and traveling by river faster. 

People traveled farther. 

Encouraged new cities 

• Cotton Gin

• Steam Locomotive

• Steamboat

• Telegraph

Made communication faster over long distances. 

Sent electric signals (messages) over long distances instantly. 

Connect settlers in the west with people and news in the east of United States.  

• Cotton Gin

• Steam Locomotive

• Steamboat

• Telegraph

What does suffrage mean?

• women has a right to vote

• to end slavery

What  does an abolitionist do?

• Fight for women's rights

• Fight to end slavery.

She was an abolitionist and feminist during the nineteenth century. She escaped enslavement an rose to be a leader in the fight for equality and fair treatment for both and African Americans women along side with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton.

• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony

She was one of the most famous abolitionists. She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad helping slaves to escape to the north. She made 19 trips to help about 300 slaves escape.

• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony

With Susan B. Anthony, she formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They believed strongly that women should be given the right to vote. She presented an important document called the Declaration of Sentiments: women and men were created equal and should be treated the same under the law.

• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony

After escaping from slavery in 1838, he became a writer, speaker, and abolitionist in the years leading up to the Civil War.

• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony