SOCIAL

SOUTH CAROLINA

• In 1822 the 136-mile long Charleston line was the longest railroad in the world.

HERMAN MELVILLE

• Moby dick was not a best seller when it was first published.

JOHN DEERE

• The steel-tipped plow could easily cut through the hard-packed sod of the prairies.

ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

• Along with being the first women to receive a medical degree she also was the first woman to graduate from medical school.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

• To be able to draw the birds on his list Audubon traveled to different states and became an explorer.

GEORGE CATLIN

• He specializes in portraits of Native Americans in the old west.

TOM THUMB

• Tom Thumb was owned by B&O railroad.

SOJOURNER TRUTH

• She was the first black woman to successfully bring a lawsuit against a white man.

LUCRETIA MOTT

• She was a supporter of William Lloyd Garrison and his American anti-slavery society.

ROGER B. TANEY

• He is remembered principally for the dread Scott decision.

HARRIET TUBMAN

• She helped about 3,000 slaves make it to freedom.

NAT TURNER

• He led the most famous slave rebellion against the white slave owns.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• He taught other slaves to read the New Testament.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

• She achieved national fame for her anti-slavery novel, Uncle Toms Cabin.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

• In 1892-1900 Susan was the president of the national woman suffrage association.

SAMUEL MORSE

• He invented two things morse code and improvement in electromagnetic telegraphs.

SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK

• The first woman’s right convention was held there.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

• Another epic poem he wrote was Evangeline

ELI WHITNEY

• He invented 3 things cotton gin, milling, and interchangeable parts.

BLEEDING KANSAS

• Bleeding Kansas was a mini civil war between pro- and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865.