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| deep south | term used to refer tto the states of georgia, south carolina, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, and texas |
| nat turner | an enslaved man and religous leader who led violent rebellion that killed 55 whites |
| samuel morse | inventor of the telegraph |
| flying cloud | clipper ship set a new record by sailing from new york to california |
| john peere | inventer of the steel tipped plow in 1837 |
| tom thumb | 1st american steam locomotive |
| upper south | term used to refer to the states maryland, virginia, an north carolina |
| cryus mccormick | designed and constructed the steal reaper |
| erie canal | connected albany and buffalo |
| peter cooper | designed and built the firsty american steam locomotive in 1830 |
| elias howe | inventer of the sewing machine in 1846 |
| eli whitney | invented cotton gin |
| robert fulton | developed a reliable steam boat |
| know nothing party | new political party that called for stricter citizenship |
| hairret tubman | enslaved woman who escaped to freedom in the north/ she helped get others to freedom |
| spiritual | african american religous folk song |
| famine | extreme shortage of food |
| capital | money for investment |
| nativist | person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a group; uneqaul because of race, religon, etc |
| prejudice | unfair oppinon based on facts |
| strike | stopping of work by workers to force employer demands |
| credit | a form of loan |
| yoemen | southerner owner of a small farm who didn't heve enslaved people |
| overseer | person who suppervises it's workers |
| telegraph | device or system theat uses electrical signals to transmit msgs by a code |
| tenant farmer | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent |
| cotton gin | machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber |
| fixed costs | regular expenses such as housing or maintaining equipment |
| clipper ship | fastest transportation in water |
| slave code | laws passed in southern states that controlled enslaved people |
| trade union | organization of people with the same trade or skill |
| morse code | system for transmitting messages that ises a series of dots and dashes to represents letters |
