- UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses that 19th century African slaves in the United States used to escape to free states (or as far north as Canada) with the aid of abolitionists.
- TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the golden spike ceremonially driven at Promontory, Utah, after track was laid over a 1,756 mile (2,826 km) gap between Sacramento and Omaha in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.
2) ID
- UNCLE TOMS CABIN: highly effective, sentimental Abolitionist novel.
- FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: The fugitive slave laws were statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.
- HARRIET TUBMAN: United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
- GADSDEN PURCHASE: The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico) is a 45,535 mi² (76,770 km²) region of what is today southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853.
- KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.
- CHARLES SUMMER: Charles Summers (27 July 1825 – 30 November 1878) was an English-born Australian sculptor, creator of the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills.
3) the transcontinental railroad devdied the north & south and incrased the argument about slavery
6) ON A SEPERATE SHEET OF PAPER
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