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Briana's History
Briana's History Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Morse Code | A system for transmitting messages that uses A series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuations |
| Telegraph | A device or system that uses electric signals to transmit messages by a code over wires |
| Abolitionist | A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery |
| Yeoman | Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people |
| Cotton gin | A machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber |
| Nativist | Person who favors those born in his country and is apposed to immigrants |
| Tenant farmers | Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops |
| Slave Code | The laws passed in southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people |
| Spiritual | An African American religious folk song |
| Utopia | Community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers |
| Transcendentalist | 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. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
| Who was Henry David Thoroeu? | He was a writer who refused to pay a one dollar tax to vote because he knew it would go to the Mexican AMerican War |
| Who was Harriet Tubman? | She was an escaped slave and one of the main conducters of the underground railroad. |
| Susan B Anthony? | organized the country's first woman's temperance association, called the Daughters of Temperance. |
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