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  1. 7. leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
  2. 11. American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company
  3. 13. made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
  4. 15. a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
  5. 18. prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer
  6. 20. American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat
  7. 21. a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection
  8. 25. the movement to end slavery
  9. 27. The expansion of internal American trade greatly increased with the adoption of canals, steamboats, and railroads
  10. 28. a system of mills, complete with small villages and farms, ponds, dams, and spillways
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  1. 1. parts that are, for practical purposes, identical
  2. 2. machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
  3. 3. American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer
  4. 4. American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine
  5. 5. network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century
  6. 6. Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.
  7. 8. a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831
  8. 9. American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education
  9. 10. American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill
  10. 12. American inventor and painter and contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
  11. 14. American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
  12. 16. the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States
  13. 17. the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"
  14. 19. flexible material made by creating an interlocking network of yarns or threads
  15. 22. a labor and production model employed during the rise of the textile industry in the United States
  16. 23. American abolitionist and women's rights activist
  17. 24. American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
  18. 26. region of the Southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 18th century into the 20th century