Un-paid laborers of the South

This invention helped farmers sow their fields more efficiently. (Deere)

This invention helped plantation owners increase their output, increased demand for slaves.

This invention dramatically reduced the time needed to travel long distances over land.

This invention dramatically reduced the time needed to travel long distances over water and upstream on rivers.

This invention dramatically reduced the time needed to communicate over long distances, used code.

This invention dramatically reduced the time farmers needed to bring in crops like wheat, barley and oats.

An organized group of workers in the same career, fight for rights

Action taken by unions to "shut down" production in protest against unequal pay or treatment

A new and more effective way of working or producing goods/services.

"Black Moses" of the Underground Railroad

Abolitionist Author of 'Uncle Toms Cabin"

Invented the Telegraph

Hatred and mistrust of immigrants

A series of laws in the south, designed to control the large African American population.

The ability to read, the South lagged behind...

Unfair treatment based on immutable characteristics, such as race, gender of religion.

The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated machine manufacturing.

A series of safe-houses for slaves, leading to freedom in the North.

Movement to end slavery in the US

Movement to end/limit drinking in the US

The right to vote

A spiritual movement that had political aims

To fundamentally change an institution or process

Created the "Normal Schools" Movement

Former slave who escaped and became a writer/advocate for abolitionism.

Leader of the women's suffrage movement

Training schools for teachers, designed to expand public education in the US

Dorothea Dix worked diligently on this topic...

Public schools became an alternative to this phenomenon.

Girls and boys learning together in primary school.

The right to vote

The movement to end slavery

The movement to limit or end alcohol consumption

To improve a system, by correcting faults, abuses, or errors

Physical or mental work undertaken to produce goods or services (Workers)

Clandestine network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada

A worldwide movement from agricultural and cottage industry production to factory mass production.