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

• 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