Unit 4

A crop produced for its high demand in the market rather than usage by the grower.

Someone who was against slavery.

The invention made in 1793 by Eli Whitney that made cotton farming more profitable in the South.

Life in the countryside or farmland, where people often work in agriculture.

A photographer who took pictures of children working in factories to show how unfair it was

The Southern economy was relying on large plantations that grew cash crops. Agriculture or Industrial?

Cabins where enslaved people lived on the plantations.

The brutal journey that enslaved Africans were forced to endure from Africa to the Americas as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Large farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop.

The South's most important “cash crop”?

A place where survivors of the Middle Passage were sold to work on plantations.

an female abolitionist and a former enslaved person who helped free many enslaved people including her family and friends using the underground railroad.

In the 1800s, many children worked in factories, coal mines, and textile mills instead of going to school...

the right to vote

Life in a city or town, where people live closer together and work in factories, businesses, or services instead of farming.

Leader of the first women's rights convention?

A male abolitionist and writer who was born enslaved in 1818 in Maryland.

The practice of owning people as property.

The Northern economy was based factories and trade. Agriculture or Industrial?

a route of safe houses that lead to freedom and were used to feed and shelter enslaved people.

to make changes or improve something

A teacher and politician from Massachusetts. He believed every child should get a free public education.

The first women's rights meeting in U.S. history in Seneca Falls, New York.