What did Susan B. Anthony do?

She fought for women's suffrage rights.

She founded public schools in America.

She drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

She improved the treatment of the Native Americans.

How did inventions like the telegraph, steamboat, and railroads affect life in early America?

These inventions led to increased business productivity and economic growth.

Thomas Edison was responsible for each of these new inventions.

Inventions like these caused slavery to spread throughout the United States.

These inventions made it possible for new states like Kansas and Missouri to join the Union.

Susan B. Anthony's family was part of the Quaker religion. When Susan B. Anthony was growing up, which belief did many Quakers have?

Men and women are created equal.

Fighting is the best way to solve problems.

Sometimes technology works out in unexpected ways. For example, some people thought that the cotton gin would mean less work for enslaved people. Instead, plantation owners wanted even more enslaved people to work for them. Why did plantation owners want more enslaved people?

to grow and pick even more cotton

to plant more valuable crops, such as corn and peanuts

By 1860, there were almost four million enslaved African American people in the United States. What is an enslaved person ?

a person who is owned by someone else

a person who is drafted into the army

a person who works for someone else for 4-7 years

William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and the Grimké sisters were famous abolitionists. The word abolitionist comes from the word abolish , which means "to get rid of something." What did abolitionists believe?

Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong and should end.

Abolitionists believed that slavery should expand to new areas.

Abolitionists believed that slavery was only good for the South.

Abolitionists believed that the issue of slavery should be ignored.

Some abolitionists became involved in the Underground Railroad . What was the Underground Railroad?

a secret network of people who helped enslaved people escape

a train route that went underground from Alabama to New York.

a group of slavery supporters who wanted to take over Mexico

a group that planned an attack on Harpers Ferry in Virginia

Name the two women who founded the National Women's Suffrage Association.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth

People who fought for women's suffrage were fighting for:

Women having the right to work outside the home

women's right to be in the army

How did Frederick Douglass take a stand?

He gave many public speeches against slavery

He wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave

He worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery

What did the 19th Amendment to the Constitution do?

It gave women the right to vote

It gave slaves the right to vote

It gave women the right to own land

What is the negative effect of the cotton gin?

Increased the need for slave labor

How did the cotton gin change cotton production in the South?

Cotton became the most important cash crop in the United States.

It could clean more cotton in minutes than a whole group of workers could clean in a day.

Why did river travel improve during the 1800s?

because of the invention of the steam engine

because of the invention of stagecoaches

because of the invention of the reaper

because rivers were getting faster every year

What did the invention of the telegraph allow people to do for the first time?

send a message almost instantly from a great distance

hear someone's voice who is standing many miles away

send a message across the country in a week's time

see an object clearly that is many miles in the distance

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This inventor is credited with developing the first telegraph in 1837.

George Stephenson

Eli Whitney

Caleb Nowell

Samuel Morse

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which communication device had the BIGGEST impact on life in the early 1800s?

telegraph

telephone

cell phone

radio

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of these inventions had the BIGGEST impact on transportation in early America?

steam boat

telegraph

the cotton gin

the phonograph

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If a person living in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1850 needed to get a message delivered to New York City, which of these would have been the QUICKEST method available at that time?

locomotive

steam boat

telegraph

telephone

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Sojourner Truth was a major voice in the "abolition" movement. What did the "abolition" movement seek to end?

immigration

war

poverty

slavery

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of these had the BIGGEST impact on the early life of Sojourner Truth?

disease

slavery

politics

war

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Born in 1818
Escaped slavery in 1838
*Famous orator (speaker)
All of these are describing which famous American?

Harriet Tubman

Susan B Anthony

Frederick Douglass

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Advancements in our Nation Unit Test Review

This inventor is credited with developing the first telegraph in 1837.

Which communication device had the BIGGEST impact on life in the early 1800s?

Which of these inventions had the BIGGEST impact on transportation in early America?

If a person living in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1850 needed to get a message delivered to New York City, which of these would have been the QUICKEST method available at that time?

Sojourner Truth was a major voice in the "abolition" movement. What did the "abolition" movement seek to end?

Which of these had the BIGGEST impact on the early life of Sojourner Truth?

*Born in 1818*Escaped slavery in 1838*Famous orator (speaker)All of these are describing which famous American?

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

How did inventions like the telegraph, steamboat, and railroads affect life in early America?

Susan B. Anthony's family was part of the Quaker religion. When Susan B. Anthony was growing up, which belief did many Quakers have?

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Born in 1818
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