Antebellum Years Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
plantation system | large estate or farm on which crops are raised, whose workers live on site |
cotton gin | a machine that separates the seeds, seed hulls, and other small objects from the fibers of the cotton |
Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
subsistence farms | growing and keeping of crops in order to survive |
antebellum | the period in the United States before the American Civil War |
sectionalism | loyalty to one's region or area |
Denmark Vessey | a former slave who bought his freedom and secretly planned a slave revolt in Charleston and nearby plantaions |
slave codes | laws passed to restrict the movement of and punish slaves |
abolitionist | person who favored the end of slavery |
emancipate | to free |
Nat Turner | led the most violent slave revolt in the U.S. |
Sarah and Angelina Grimke | sisters from Charleston who participated in the abolitionist movement |
The Liberator | an anti-slavery newspaper written be William Lloyd Garrison |
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