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& 121 - Growing Apart: North and South The pictures 1. A machine for making wagon wheels. The factory system spread rapidly in the North in the first half of the 19th century. 2. Slaves on a cotton plantation. By 1850, slavery had become the biggest moral and political issue confronting the people of the United States. 3. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became one of the most famous for his speeches against slavery. He also published an anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star. 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book inflamed the passions of people on both sides of the slavery issue. 5. John Brown, leader of a famous raid on a government gun factory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). He hoped to seize weapons and start a rebellion by slaves. The vocabulary terms A glossary for the vocabulary terms can be found with the link near the top of this section's main index page. See the Getting Started pages at the front of the workbook for suggestions for students about highlighting, and making vocabulary index cards. |
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Copyright 2018 by David Burns. All rights reserved. Illustrations and reading selections appearing in this work are taken from sources in the public domain and from private collections used by permission. Sources include: the Dover Pictorial Archive, the Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Hart Publishing Co., Corel Corporation and its licensors, Nova Development Corporation and its licensors, and others. Maps were created or adapted by the author using reference maps from the United States Geological Survey and Cartesia Software. Please see the home page for this title for more information. |