U.S History Chapter 11 People and Terms
Across
- 4. Deere, blacksmith from Vermont that perfected the plow by putting an edge of steel over the iron blade
- 5. Smith, founded Mormonism
- 6. Lloyd Garrison, the most important and most militant abolitionist leader who launched a newspaper called the Liberator which dedicated to attacking the moral evil of slavery
- 7. McCormick, received a patent for a reaping machine in 1834
- 11. the movement to eliminate slavery immediately and entirely
- 13. F. B. Morse, talented painter, who studied under Benjamin West; invented the telegraph
- 15. Stuart, one of the young nation’s finest portrait painters; best known for his different portraits of George Washington, especially his “ unfinished”portrait, which appears on the one dollar bill
- 17. Tubman, born a slave in Maryland, in 1822, perhaps the most famous member of the Underground Railroad
- 18. meetings, series of religious services, lasting several days, and often held outdoors; this was the chief feature of the Western revivals
- 21. West, America’s first great painter
- 22. Railroad, developed as a means of hiding fleeing slaves, and leading them to safety and freedom in the North
Down
- 1. Mann, head of the Massachusetts Board of Education; one of the leading reformers in the drive for public education
- 2. followers of the teachings of English minister John Wesley
- 3. the faith of several American leaders they believed that reason, rather than scripture was the way man came to know God
- 8. Slater, constructed an English styled mill in Providence, Rhode Island
- 9. gin, a machine containing a series of metal teeth mounted on rollers that separated the cotton from the troublesome seeds; indebted by Whitney
- 10. reformers, thought to establish small, perfect communities that was service models for the reform of society at large
- 12. Turner: a slave, and radical preacher that lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia which resulted in Turner getting hanged
- 14. one of the most prestigious, unorthodox religions, denies the Trinity, and therefore the deity of Christ
- 16. Whitney, best known for inventing the cotton gin, however his work with interchangeable parts was more important
- 19. Owen, British reformer that purchased Harmonie from the Rappites in 1825; he renamed it New Harmony
- 20. Mason, publish several popular hymnbooks and compose the tunes for such hymn as “ Nearer, My God, to Thee”