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| 2308642658 | Industrialists | people who owned factories and other industries that changed the way people worked |  | 0 |
| 2308642659 | urban | areas where a great number of people live together; big cities |  | 1 |
| 2308642660 | immigrants | people who move from one country to another, often to have a better life |  | 2 |
| 2308642661 | plantation | large farms, usually in the south, where slaves did most of the work |  | 3 |
| 2308642662 | cotton gin | machine to clean seeds from cotton fibers; increased cotton production and need for slaves |  | 4 |
| 2308642663 | cash crop | a type of crop that is planted in order to sell it to make money |  | 5 |
| 2308642664 | slaves | people who are treated as property; usually of African descent in American history |  | 6 |
| 2308642665 | Slave Codes | laws limiting slaves adn people who wanted to help them |  | 7 |
| 2308642666 | oppression | the sense of being held back by unfair force |  | 8 |
| 2308642667 | discrimination | to be treated differently based on race, gender, religion, or some other characteristic |  | 9 |
| 2308642668 | segregation | a policy to keep groups of people separate; usually separated by race |  | 10 |
| 2308642669 | racism | a belief or policy that says one race is better than another |  | 11 |
| 2308642670 | reform | to make changes to a current system, hopefully to make things better |  | 12 |
| 2308642671 | transcendentalism | a way of thinking that believed people should go beyond logical ideas to use emotion and intuition to reach true understanding |  | 13 |
| 2308642672 | asylum | hospitals for the mentally ill; many asylums needed reforming during the mid-1800's |  | 14 |
| 2308642673 | Suffrage Movement | groups of people who fought for women to get the right to vote in the late 1800's |  | 15 |
| 2308642674 | abolitionists | people who wanted to end slavery |  | 16 |
| 2308642675 | Underground Railroad | system of people, known as conductors, who helped slaves escape to freedom |  | 17 |
| 2308642676 | fugitive | a person who tries to escape or run away from a situation |  | 18 |
| 2308642677 | popular sovereignty | idea that the authority of government comes from the people |  | 19 |
| 2308642678 | sectionalism | to favor the interests of one region over the country as a whole |  | 20 |
| 2308642679 | raid | a surprise or sudden attack to gain control over a certain place |  | 21 |
| 2308642680 | secede | to withdraw from a political organization or alliance |  | 22 |
| 2308642681 | secession | the act of withdrawing from an organization or political alliance |  | 23 |
