| A | B |
|---|
| Telegraph | Invented by Samuel Morse |
| clipper ship | sleek vessels with narrow hull and big sails |
| Elias Howe | Inventor of the sewing machine |
| Cyrus McCormick | opened a factory that manufactured mechanical reapers |
| John Deere | Who invented the lightweight steel plow? |
| Rocket | First locomotive steam engine |
| John Griffiths | Launched the Rainbow Clipper Ship |
| Artisans | Workers who have learned a trade |
| Strike | Union workers refuse to do their jobs |
| Famine | Severe food shortage |
| Nativist | people who want to preserve the country for native born |
| Know-Nothing Party | political party formed by nativists |
| Discrimination | attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people |
| Henry Boyd | African American who operated a profitable furniture company |
| Macon Allen | 1st African American lawyer |
| John Russworm | Editor of the Freedom's Journal |
| Sarah Bagley | Organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Cotton Gin | machine that cleaned cotton |
| Cotton Kingdom | Area of the South where cotton was grown |
| William Gregg | built a cotton mill that was based on the Lowell factory |
| Planter | Someone who owned at least 20 slaves |
| Cottonocracy | Wealthy planters |
| Norbert Rillieux | invented a machine that changed the way sugar was made |
| Henry Blair | patented a seed planter |
| Slave Codes | laws that kept slaves from rebelling |
| Extended Family | large group of relatives that lived together |
| Denmark Vesey | a free African American who planned a revolt |
| Nat Turner | African American preacher who led a revolt |
| skilled worker | a person who has learned a trade |
