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5th Gr SS U3 CM1 FK1
Pre Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrial | having to do with businesses and factories |
| Urban | having to do with cities or towns |
| Manufacturing | the massive production of goods through the use of machines and tools in factories |
| Factory | a large building where workers make goods |
| Trade | the business of buying and selling goods; commerce |
| Shipping | the business of sending goods on ships, trains, etc. |
| Railroads | a system of transportation using trains |
| Canals | man-made waterways connecting bodies of water so that ships can travel between them |
| Agriculture | the production of food and goods through farming |
| Rural | having to do with the countryside and agriculture |
| Plantation | a large farm found in warm climates where crops are grown |
| Cash Crop | a crop which is grown for money |
| Cotton Gin | a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seed invented by Eli Whitney |
| Slavery | a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be |
| Territory | large areas of land that were not yet states |
| State | a political and geographical unit that makes up a union |
| Union | the organization of the states that remained loyal to the government and the constitution |
| States’ Rights | a concept that refers to the ideas that states possess certain rights and political powers in relation to the federal government |
| Constitution | the system of laws that state the rights of people and the powers of the government |
| Compromise | an agreement that is reached after people with opposing views each give up some of their demands |
| Fugitive | a person who flees or tries to escape |
| Underground Railroad | a network of people who helped runaway slaves escape to free states in the North and to Canada. |
| Station | a place where runaway slaves hid |
| Conductor | a person who hid the slaves and guided them during their escape to freedom. |
| Passenger | a runaway slave |
| Mason Dixon Line | the border separating the slave state of Maryland from the free State of Pennsylvania. |
| Secede | to withdraw formally from an organization or a nation |
| Confederacy | the government set up from 1861 to 1865 of eleven southern states |
| Abolitionist | a person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it right away |
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