People/Places
People who live in, and have the rights of a certain place.
Citizens
The first constitution of the United States
Articles of Confederation
Approved (another word for)
Ratified
A machine that separated cotton from its seeds and made cotton much easier to sell in large amounts
Cotton Gin
States in the northern part of the United States
Northern States
The second constitution of the United States, it replaced the Articles of Confederation
US Constitution
the thing that states are allowed to decide and do regardless of what other states or the federal government think.
States rights
Large scale farming
Agriculture
people who wanted to make slavery illegal and end it in the US forever
Abolitionists
a war fought mainly between the US and Great Britain from 1812-1815
War of 1812
to try to show that something is okay and is not bad
Justify
a practice in which people are treated like property and bought and sold in order to do work for the people who believe they own them
Slavery
States in the southern part of the united States
Southern States
A war fought from 1861-1865 between northern and southern U.S. states
Embargo
to officially withdraw from (leave) a country.
Secede
The European country that originally colonized the US, the colonists won their independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War
Britian
When most all of the money being made is from one thing
Economic Dependence