U.S. History Chapter 4
Inventions Improved Life:
Steel plow
John Deere
Reaper
Cyrus McCormick
Vulcanized rubber
Charles Goodyear
Sewing machine
Elias Howe
I.M. Singer
Foot pedal
Assembly line
Steamboat
Robert Fulton
Canals
Railroads
Telegraph
Samuel Morse
Anti-Slavery Movement:
Back to Africa
William Lloyd Garrison
"The Liberator"
Anti-slavery publication
White
Blacks should have same rights as any American citizen
Founded
American Anti-Slavery Society
Forum for abolitionist views
Nat Turner's Revolt
- 1831
Led 50-60 slaves in a revolt against 5 plantations
Stopped at the 5th
Members either captured or killed
Turner hanged
Southern states banned circulation of written anti-slavery material
Blamed revolt on "The Liberator"
Frederick Douglass
Escaped from slavery in 1838
My Excape from Slavery"
Autobiography:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Great speaker
Spoke often Anti-Slavery Society
Abolition without violence
Sojourner Truth
Former slave
Great speaker
Spoke at Anti-Slavery Society
Ain't I A Woman speech
Harriet Tubman
Underground railroad
- National Geographic Online
Prejudice in the North
Philosophical differences between the North and South, as exemplified by such persons as
Daniel Webster
and
John C. Calhoun