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Unit 7 Vocab
Ways of life in the North and South before Civil War Unit 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790s and became widespread in the US by the 1830s. | Second Great Awakening |
| A large scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves | Planter |
| A rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginaia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| Owners of small farms | Yeoman |
| The social and economic level between the weathly and the poor | Middle Class |
| Americans who opposed immigration were known as | Nativists |
| Housing that was poorly built and overcrowded was known as | Tenements |
| A region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced | Cotton Belt |
| A network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves | Underground Railroad |
| A political organization that was created to make it difficult for immigrants to become citizens or hold public office. | Know Nothing Party |