1-29 Road to the Civil War/Civil War Unit

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Across
  1. 3. cloth
  2. 5. an end to slavery
  3. 7. American woman suffrage leader, she organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott
  4. 8. a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790s and became widespread in the United States by the 1830s
  5. 10. American engineer and inventor, he built the first commercially successful full-sized steamboat, the Clermont, which led to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and services
  6. 11. American artist and inventor, he applied scientists' discoveries of electricity and magnetism to develop the telegraph, which soon sent messages all across the country
  7. 17. an American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star
  8. 18. American Educator is considered the father of American public education. He was a leader of the common-school movement, advocating education for all children
  9. 19. a process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same
  10. 20. The rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transport
  11. 22. American reformer, she planned the Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  12. 24. American philanthropist and social reformer, she helped change the prison system nationwide
  13. 25. the use of water-powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s
  14. 27. American evangelist and reformer, she was born an enslaved African but was later freed and became a speaker for abolition and women's suffrage
  15. 28. American inventor; he patented the improved sewing machine and by 1860, was the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the country
  16. 29. a rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families
Down
  1. 1. American inventor and industrialist, he invented the mechanical reaper and the harvesting machine that quickly cut down wheat
  2. 2. a system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800s in which whole families were hired as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks
  3. 4. the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
  4. 6. American abolitionist who escaped slavery and assisted other enslaved Africans to escape; she is the most famous Underground Railroad conductor and is known as the Moses of her people
  5. 9. a network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places
  6. 12. the machine perfected by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires
  7. 13. a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
  8. 14. American industrialist; he developed a steel plow to ease the difficulty of turning thick soil on the Great Plains
  9. 15. the machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry
  10. 16. a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s and promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of social class or background
  11. 21. American journalist and reformer; he published the famous antislavery newspaper, the Liberator, and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society, promoting immediate emancipation and racial equality
  12. 23. a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol
  13. 26. a region stretching from South Carolina to East Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s