North vs. South Flashcards

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