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history test
key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| telegraph | a device or system that uses electric signals to transmit messages by a code over wires |
| Morse code | a system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation |
| nativist | a person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants |
| yeoman | Southerner owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people |
| tenant farmer | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops |
| Transcendentalism | any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience |
| abolitionist | a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery |
| spiritual | an African American religious folk song |
| slave code | the laws passed in the Southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people |
| Location of the first meeting for the women's movement. | Seneca Falls |
| A system that helped slaves follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North. | The Underground Railroad |
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