The Industrial North
employers divided jobs into smaller steps
yeomen, tenant farmer, rural poor, or plantation owner.
farmer who owns a small farm
rice, indigo, and tobacco and of course cotton
undergroud railroad
system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm and Macon B. Allen
kept the plantation's financial records.
law in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
the trade of enslaved people among states of the United States
This allowed farmers to cut through the hard-packed prairie sod.
was the boom in cotton. Agriculture, especially cotton farming, produced great profits.
person opposed to immigration