Southern People
Slaves
People who worked for somebody and had no freedoms.
Antebellum South
Pre-war south
Robert Fulton
Established one of the first steamboat transportation systems.
Davy Crockett
A frontiersmen, volunteer soldier, state representative, and soldier who was killed at the Alamo.
Northeast
An area with warm summers, cold snowy winters, and it is hilly and rocky.
Planters
People who owned a plantation that planted things.
Mississippi Delta
This area, from Memphis Tennessee to Mississippi provided rich farmland.
Northern Population
22 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comanche Indians
Native people that occupied the southern plains
The Midwest
Has ample forests, great lakes, and thousands of rivers and lakes.
George Fitzhugh
A man that believed that almost all of population should be slaves because it would free people from making decisions.
Coastal Plains
Hot and humid areas where plantations were located.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Made ocean travel less expensive and faster.
Frontier
The area beyond American civilization
The Erie Canal
It connected the Great Lakes to te Hudson River and then eventually to NYC.
Eli Whitney
Invented the Cotton Gin
Appalachian Mountains
Mountains that run from Canada to north central Alabama.
Fur Trappers
Hunted for animals with fur
Conestoga Wagon
A way to travel west.
Mills
Small factories powered by running water
Population
5.8 million free people 3.2 million slaves
Cotton Kingdom
The souths nickname
Mountain Men
Men that mapped & explored the WEST
5 points neighborhood
A DANGEROUS area in NYC.
Industrial Revolution
When people went from working on farms to cities with factories.