Vocab
A negative condition, circumstance, or pressure that motivates, drives, or forces individuals to leave their home country or region
What is a push factor?
White Americans who opposed enslavement
Who are Abolitionists?
They have freezing winters to hot summers
What is the North?
Made cotton way more profitable
what was the cotton gin?
They were forced to work on farms and were pushed as hard as possible
What is a slave?
a positive condition or opportunity in a new location that attracts people to migrate there
What is a pull factor?
The first women who could legally vote
Who is Charlotte Woodward?
They had mild winters and long hot summers
What is the South?
defined enslaved people as property
What were slave codes?
could not vote,travel freely,go to white-only schools,or be housed at a hotel or motel
Who were black people?
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery
Who is an abolitionist?
A reviving of religious feeling
What is the second Great awakening?
It was the main transportation of the south
What were the railroads?
They got the most work possible out of slaves
Who were overseers?
more than 1 million of them came to America from 1820 through 1860 and were disrespected because they were Roman Catholic
Who is an Irish immigrant.
conferred by or based on inheritance
What is hereditary?
Were particularly vulnerable to abuse and neglect in prisons
Who are women
They were rich,didn't have to work,and had lots of slaves
Who are rich plantation workers?
One room with a fireplace and often no windows
What did a slave live in?
They rented slaves,sometimes owned a few or just worked with no slaves at all
Who are small white land owners?
hostile behavior; unfriendliness or opposition
what is hostility?
used taxes to train teachers and give them higher saleries
Who is Horace Mann
He and his partners had built one of the first American textile mills
Who is Francis Lowell?
got sent to this type of person if the slaves failed to learn that they know nothing,and to obey the master
Who were slave breakers?
They often wore badges,paid extra taxes and lived separately from white people
What is a free black southerner?