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a history test on the westward expansion and slavery chapters 12 and 13

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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  
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  
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  
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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