1.America is exploding across the continent. The economy is booming. ________in the South, ________ in the North
2. The ________is the biggest construction project in the Western world in the last 4000 years
3. They call it "Clinton's big ditch," but it will change ________ forever.
4. They're literally moving mountains and there's only one way through, ________.
5. Eight years of digging. Nearly ________ lives lost
6. ________takes off as a global financial center.
7. A simple patent filed on March 4, 1794, changes all that. The ________.
8. Called ________, cotton supports a new lavish lifestyle in the South.
9. The South is thriving on the backs of humans owning other humans. It's called ________.
10.For the South, cotton is a gold mine. Now the North wants a piece of the action. It's a partnership that makes everyone rich, based on a new machine, the ________.
11.Women from the Lowell Mills gather after work and organize. Their protest against ________ is one of the first ________in US history
12. It's auction day. The day every slave ________the most.
13.Now men cost $1000. Women, $800. Children,________.
14. Slaves are ________ for auction, like livestock.
15.Frederick ________ makes it to New York City and freedom and becomes a leading figure in the antislavery movement. He'll write a best-selling autobiography.
16.The best hope for escaped slaves is the legendary ________and the tireless efforts of Harriet Tubman.
17.Harriet Tubman is the ________of our people
18. The Fugitive ________ brings the brutality of Southern slavery to the North.
19. One man will stop at nothing to abolish slavery. ________.
20.The divide between North and South is an open wound. ________ bleeds for two years, more than 200 dead.
21. Brown prepares to take the fight into the heart of the South. His plan, to capture the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, the biggest ________in the South. muskets and pistols, worth almost $7 million.
22. Radical abolitionist John Brown is trying to inspire a slave revolt. ________have joined him and now he's trapped.
23. Charged as a criminal, he puts the institution of slavery on trial. America is fatally divided. Brown is convicted of ________ and sentenced to ________.
24. ________ will be elected president of a country hurtling towards war.
25. But as he prepares to take office, the President-elect is still determined to avoid a ________. Lincoln was not happy about slavery.
26. ________ secedes from the Union
27.Lincoln's principal objective was to save the Union and then we'll deal with slavery, but before too long, he had to both ________ and deal with slavery.
28.A virtual state of war already exists. The South mobilizes an army of ________ men against a Union army of _______ million.
29. In the next four years, more lives will be lost than in all America's ________.