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North & South Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| yeomen | |
| tenant farmers | |
| plantation owners/wives | |
| rural poor | |
| overseers | |
| slave codes | |
| spirituals | |
| underground railroad | |
| sectionalism | |
| Missouri Compromise | |
| Fugitive Slave Act | |
| border ruffians | |
| popular sovereignty | |
| credit | |
| 1860 presidential election | |
| Bleeding Kansas | |
| Compromise of 1850 | |
| cash crops | |
| fixed costs | |
| extended families | |
| abolision | |
| secede | |
| discrimination | |
| slave trade | |
| trade unions | |
| strikes | |
| deforestation | |
| nativist | |
| famine | |
| immigrants | |
| clipper ships | |
| states' rights |