Across
- 3. cloth
- 5. an end to slavery
- 7. American woman suffrage leader, she organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott
- 8. a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790s and became widespread in the United States by the 1830s
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 19. a process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same
- 20. The rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transport
- 22. American reformer, she planned the Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- 24. American philanthropist and social reformer, she helped change the prison system nationwide
- 25. the use of water-powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s
- 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
- 28. American inventor; he patented the improved sewing machine and by 1860, was the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the country
- 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. American inventor and industrialist, he invented the mechanical reaper and the harvesting machine that quickly cut down wheat
- 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
- 4. the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
- 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
- 9. a network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places
- 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
- 13. a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
- 14. American industrialist; he developed a steel plow to ease the difficulty of turning thick soil on the Great Plains
- 15. the machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry
- 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
- 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
- 23. a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol
- 26. a region stretching from South Carolina to East Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s