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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Telegraph, Morse Code Samuel Morse. | 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 letter, numbers, and punctuation. Samuel Morse Code. |
| Nativists | A person who favors those born in his country and is apposed to immigrants. |
| Yeomen | Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people. |
| Abolitionist | a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery. |
| Transcendentalist | any group of new england writers who stressed toe relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance. |
| Temperance | To stop drinking. |
| Slave code | The laws passed in the southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved People. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Tenant farmer | Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops. |
| Spiritual | An African American religious folk song |