| Question |
Answer |
| morse code |
an alhabet or code in wich letters are represented by combinations of long and short singnals of light and sound |
| telegraph |
a system of dilevering messages from a distance along wire a system of making and breaking electrical signals |
| abolitionist |
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or instutition such as slavery |
| yeomen |
a man holding and cultivating a small estate |
| cotton gin |
a machine used for separating cottton from its seeds |
| nativist |
a person who belives that only american born people can be americans. is against immegrants
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| tennenant farmer |
a person who farms rented land |
| slave code |
any of several laws that regulate slavery |
| spiritual |
a religious song of a kind associated with black cristians of the southern U.S and thought to come from a combination of eroupean hyms and African musical elements by black slaves
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| Transcendentalist |
a group of new england writers that belive in relationships between humans and nature and the importance of individuals |
| sufferage |
the right or previlige of voting |
| nativist |
a philosipher who subscribes to nativisim |
| Transcendentalist |
any group of new england writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature,spirutal and over material things, and the importance of being an individual |
| abolitianist |
person who strongly favors doing away slavery |
| Henry David thoreau |
was a transscendntalist showed his belif through civil disobedience |
| harriet tubman |
borna slave in maryland work in plantation fields till 30 made break for freedom on underground railroad went back in 1850 to help other slaves to freedom assisted more than 300 individuals incluidng her parents known as moses of her people |
| samuel morse |
an american inventor created the telegraph and made morse code |
| eli whitney |
created the cotton gin |
| elizabeth blackwell |
the first american woman doctor and finished school with the best in her class |
| susan B anthony |
daughter of a quaker abolitionist in new york wroked for womans rights and temperance organized the countrys first womans temprace association the daughters of temperance |
| william loyd garrison |
stimulated the growth of the anti slavery movement in 1829 left MAS to work for the countrys biggest anti slavery newspaper in baltimore. returned to boston in 1831 to found his own paper the liberator |
| fredrick douglass |
african american leader who was born into slavery and gained freedom from the north |
| sojourner truth |
was a slave woman gave birth to 13 children and watched thema ll get soled |
| elizabeth caddy stan |
joined forces with lucria mott to work for womens rights |
| harriet tubman |
borna slave in maryland work in plantation fields till 30 made break for freedom on underground railroad went back in 1850 to help other slaves to freedom assisted more than 300 individuals incluidng her parents known as moses of her people |
| samuel morse |
an american inventor created the telegraph and made morse code |
| eli whitney |
created the cotton gin |
| elizabeth blackwell |
the first american woman doctor and finished school with the best in her class |
| susan B anthony |
daughter of a quaker abolitionist in new york wroked for womans rights and temperance organized the countrys first womans temprace association the daughters of temperance |
| william loyd garrison |
stimulated the growth of the anti slavery movement in 1829 left MAS to work for the countrys biggest anti slavery newspaper in baltimore. returned to boston in 1831 to found his own paper the liberator |
| fredrick douglass |
african american leader who was born into slavery and gained freedom from the north |
| sojourner truth |
was a slave woman gave birth to 13 children and watched thema ll get soled |
| cathrene beecher |
early pioneer thought that women should play normal roles in life |
| john deere |
invented the steel plwo in 1837 which made it easier to get through soil in praries which caused for westward expansion which created more trouble for native americans |
| cyrus mcCromick |
desighned and made the mechanical reaper and made money off of it |
| the underground railroad |
a system that helped enslaved americans follow a network of escape routes out fo the south and into the free north |
| seneca falls (convention) |
the resolution that demanded suffarge the right to vote and the begining of a long hard road to gain equal rights |
| seneca falls new york |
were the first womans rights convention was made |
| how did the cotton gin increase the demand for slavery? |
because cotton farms became more common and so the demand for slavery became higher |
| what were the three phases of industrilization in the north? |
1 workers divided up and decided individual tasks
2manufactures buit factories to bring specialized workers together
3 industrial machines used to help with work |
| if slavery had been out lawed how would it have affected the economy in the north? |
it would have created trouble bacause the entire southern economy is based on slavery and growing cotton with the slaves and the cotton gin |
| why were extended families important to slaves |
because if a mother or father was sold the child could go to the aunt or other family member |
| how did transportation affect the growth of cities and the price of goods? |
things became cheaper because they could be transported faster and easier |
| how did abolitianisim result in the womans movement? |
women saw how they were helping slaves and thought that women were being treated the same way and started the movement
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| what were the three goals of the womans rights movement |
to end the laws that descriminated women,
women be allowed to enter the all male world of trades the most common was to have the right to vote |
| what did women actually achive |
women gained the right to own land after thier marrige. and to enter the male world of work but they still got minimum wages |
| what were the arguments againt abolititanisim in the south |
that slaves are like thier childern and that the slaves couldnt handle life without them and that without them the economy would crash |
| what were the arguments for the northerners against abolitianisim |
that the norht didnt want them because they would take jobs and not fit in |
| nat turner |
led a group of followers on a brief violent rampage in southhampton and killed nearly 55 whites |
| temperance |
drinking little or no acohol |
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