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Seneca Falls Convention - equal rights for women.

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Seneca Falls Convention - equal rights for women.

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The American women's rights movement began with a meeting of reformers in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Out of that first convention came a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote.

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Underground Railroads - helped runaway slaves.

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Underground Railroads - helped runaway slaves.

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For an escaped slave, the northern states were still considered a risk. Meanwhile, Canada offered blacks the freedom to live where they wanted, sit on juries, run for public office and more, and efforts at extradition had largely failed. Some Underground Railroad operators based themselves in Canada and worked to help the slaves

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Frederick Douglass - speaker in the North - escaped slave. 

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Frederick Douglass - speaker in the North - escaped slave. 

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Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Horace Mann - Public School Improvement.

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Horace Mann - Public School Improvement.

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an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. ... Educational historians credit Horace Mann as father of the Common School Movement.

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Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Writers.

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Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Writers.

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Both Hawthorne and Poe wrote about the human condition and human nature in a way that few other writers of the time period did. To both Hawthorne and Poe, humanity was an evil creature, perpetually plagued with sin, guilt, and morbidity.

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n American slave who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. The slaves killed approximately sixty white men, women and children.

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Abolitionist - end goal is to end slavery.

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Abolitionist - end goal is to end slavery.

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someone who wanted to end slavery, especially in the United States before the Civil War — when owning slaves was common practice.

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Underground Railroad - leader Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad - leader Harriet Tubman

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A network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or in Canada before the Civil War that was led by Harriet Tubman

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Plantation Owners in the South Prior to Civil War

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Plantation Owners in the South Prior to Civil War

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The wealthiest planters, such as the Virginia elite with plantations near the James River, owned more land and slaves than other farmers. Tobacco was the major cash crop in the Upper South

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The hierarchical organization by which a society or community is divided into classes. The vast majority of the population of the United States considers itself as belonging to the middle class.

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South have generally defined "planter" most precisely as a person owning property (real estate) and 20 or more slaves. The wealthiest planters, such as the Virginia elite with plantations near the James River, owned more land and slaves than other farmers.

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The cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber. Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, it was an important invention because it dramatically reduced the amount of time it took to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber.

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an apparatus for communication at a distance by coded signals; especially : an apparatus, system, or process for communication at a distance by electric transmission over wire.

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an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler. Origin of steam engine.

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Labour unions or trade unions are organizations formed by workers from related fields that work for the common interest of its members. They help workers in issues like fairness of pay, good working environment, hours of work and benefits.

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identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing

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The manufacture of goods in large quantities by machinery and by use of techniques such as the assembly line and division of labor.