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N/S People & Terms
Vocabulary and People from the North and S
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harriet Tubman | North & South: most famous conductor of the underground rail road. Returned to the South 19 times to lead slaves to freedom |
| Nat Turner | North & South:an African American slave who lead a revolt in Virginia that killed the master and his family |
| Fredrick Douglas | North & South:an articulate African American spokesperson, taught himself to read. Spoke and wrote in newspapers on the injustices they face |
| Eli Whiteny | North & South:a Yale graduate who invented the cotton gin |
| William Greg | North:a southern factory owner, that is the father of Texas Industry |
| John Brown | North & South:an abolitionist, who attacked an armoury at Harpers Ferry in hopes of arming slaves and fighting back against slavery(Villain in South & Hero in the North) |
| Dred Scott | North & South:a free slave in the North, master moved South. Took master to court saying that he couldn't make him a slave again. Supreme Court said that he was property and had no right to sue his master |
| Abraham Lincoln(Election of 1860) | North & South: his argument was that he would not mess with slavery in the south but all states out west would be slave free. Southern government took him off their ballot, yet he still won the election |
| Jefferson Davis | North & South: was appointed the president of the Confederate States of America |
| Steven A. Douglas | North & South: basically fought against Lincoln in election of 1860 |
| Samuel Morse | North & South: invented telegram and Morse code |
| John Deere | North & South: a Vermont blacksmith who made a lightweight plow out of steel |
| Elias Howe | North & South: made the sewing machine |
| Cyrus McCormick | North & South: invented the reaper and made it in a factory up north in Chicago |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | North & South: Wrote books that helped slave. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Was against slavery |
| Robert Fulton | North & South: invented steamboats and basically the steam engine |
| Roger Taney | North & South: a chief justice that said Dred Scott had no right to sue the court because he was property |
| Solomon Northrup | North: wrote Twelve Years a Slave and was a slave |
| Peter Cooper | South: invented the steam train |
| William Loyd Garrison | South: a white male abolitionist who founded anti slave group and wrote The Liberator |
| Preston Brooks | South: a South Carlonia representative who harmed Charles Sumner a senator of Massachusetts over southern slave holders |
| yeomen | North: middle class of whites that owned small farmers for themselves |
| tenant farmers | North: workers who rent farms and pays rent on the land and crops |
| plantation | North & South: a large area owned land where crops grow through the labour of slaves. |
| owner | North & South: owns the land of the plantaion |
| wives | North & South: married to the owner of the plantation |
| rural poor | North & South: they live outside the city and are poor. Class right above slaves |
| overseers | South: supervise the working slaves |
| slave codes | North & South: laws that took away most of slaves rights |
| spirituals | North & South: a religious folk song of African American |
| underground railroad | North & South: series of houses where "conductors" hid runaway slaves to help them to freedom |
| sectionalism | North & South: rivarily based on special intrest of different areas |
| Missouri Compromise | North & South: passed in the 1820 allowed states north of the missouri compomise to be free and those south to be slave |
| Fugative Slave Act | North & South: part of compomise of 1850 said that people who helped slaves would be in trouble with the law also slaves back on plantaion and if they caught them |
| border ruffians | North & South: people from Missour came over and ruffed up the people in kansas and voted for free states |
| popular soveirty | North & South: the idea the authority of goverment came form people and people get say and vote of wheter its a free or slave state. |
| 1860 president election | North & South: Abraham Lincoln won even though he wasn't on south ballot. South then secedes from union |
| credit | North & South: can buy something and pay later |
| Bleeding Kansas | North & South: over whether Kansas was a free state. Border ruffians came in and made a mess and their where fights whether it was free or slave state |
| compromise of 1850 | North & South: made California a free state, banned slave trade in D.C, more strict fugitive slave laws, border between Texas and Mexico |
| cash crops | North & South: crops such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton |
| fixed cost | North: cost that doesn't change overtime |
| extended family | North: the extra families slaves made when going to new plantation |
| abolition | North & South: fighting against slavery/trying to get ride of something |
| secede | North & South: to withdraw from a group or union |
| discrimination | North & South: to treat someone different based on race, religion, etc. |
| slave trade | North & South: the business of capturing, trading, and selling slaves |
| trade unions | South: early labor organizations that brought workers together for strikes and fight for better pay/conditions |
| strikes | South: to not do work in protest of something |
| deforestation | North & South: to cut down and re plant trees |
| nativist | South: person who dislikes immigrants |
| famine | South: without food for a long period of time |
| immigrants | South: person who moves from one country to another |
| clipper ships | South: designed for speed, went from India to China |
| Preston Brooks | South: a South Carolina representative who beat up Charles Sumner, a senator of Massachusetts over Southern slaveholders |
| state rights | South: right of states to have political powers reserved. get to choose to make and follow own laws |
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