| A | B |
|---|
| invented the telegraph | Samuel F.b. morse |
| invented the railroads | Tom Thumb |
| what are trade unions | united skilled workers |
| unskilled workers | Workers that did jobs that required little or no training |
| famine | severe time of food shortage |
| know nothing party | political party that said I know nothing when asked about the party |
| cotton gin | machine that could clean cotton very fast and thorugh |
| small farmers | farmers that owned some land and a couple slaves |
| cottonocracy | plantation owners that owned 20 or more slaves |
| slaves | black workersthat were treated badly and not paid and could be sold at owners will |
| american colonization society | wanted to free slaves and set up a colony for them in Liberia africa |
| abolitionists | people that believed slaves should be set free |
| underground railroad | system of abolitionists that helped slaves reach freedom without capture |
| poor whites | whites that usually share cropped and had no slaves |
| free blacks | blacks that were free but were treated harshly |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| clipper ship | fast sailing ship of the 1800s |
| discrimination | policy that denies equal rights to a certain race |
| slave laws | laws that set tight restrictions on slaves |
| extended family | slave families that made tight knit groups that included parents grandparents cousins uncles and children |
