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History Test-Slavery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Telegraph | A sending of electrical signals through wires |
| Morse Code | The way of communicating through the telegraph |
| Samuel Morse | Inventor of Morse Code |
| nativist | someone who favors people born in their country and is opposed to Immigration |
| Yeoman | Southern farmer of a small farm who had no slaves |
| Tenant Farmer | Farmer who works land that is owned by another farmer and pays rent in either cash or crops |
| Slave Code | Laws passed in Southern states the restricted and controlled slaves |
| Trandscendentalist | New England writers who stressed relation with nature, personal conscience, and spiritual things over material things |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Cotton Gin |
| Nat Turner | An African American who led an open rebellion in 1831 in Virginia and killed around 55 whites |
| Fredrick Douglas | A slave boy who gained his freedom and traveled around the north speaking about slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | An escaped slave who was a very successful Underground Railroad worker |
| Sojourner Truth | A slave women born into slavery and was freed when new york outlawed slavery |
| Susan B. Anthony | A leader in the woman's rights movement |
| Abolitionist | people who were against and or helped stop slavery |
| Henry David Thoreau | A Transcendentalist who refused to pay a tax he thought was wrong |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | The first woman to get a medical degree |
| Lucretia Mott | A leader in the woman's right movement |
| John Deere | invented the steel tipped plow which allowed farmers to plow the great plains |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first gathering about woman's rights |
| Cyrus McCormick | Inventor of the mechanical reaper |
| Know Nothing Party | Nativist who formed a secret anti-catholic society became a political party |
| Revivals | A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions |
| Capital | Money to invest into industry The south had its capital invested in slaves |
| What were the three phases of industrialization in the north | |
| What effects did John Deere's invintion have on people in the plains? | The steel tipped plow allowed settlers to farm the hard soil of the great plains increasing the amount of food while also starting fights with the indians because teh people were staying and not passing through. |
| How did improvements in transportation change the prices of goods? | Railroads and canals could transport goods more directly therefore lowering prices. More products also became available t othe average person. |
| What effects did the cotten gin have on slavery? | Since more cotton could be harvested in less time, more could be planted and therefore more slaves were needed. |
| American Colonization Scociety | A group who belived they oculd help in the effort against slavery by buying slaves then sending them to Africa |
| How was the womens rights movement related to the abolitionist | when people started looking at how slaves were treated and then saw they were not trated much better |
| What were the reasons for people against abolitionism | The southerners were against freeing slaves because they said that their way of life depended on it while the northerners against abolitionist claimed that slavery was not worth risking a war |
| Elizabeth Caddy Stanton | Helped to organize the Seneca falls convention |
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