Current
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Plenty of Northern people wanted to do this with slavery
Abolish
Many Northerners started the trend that continues today of moving to these areas
Cities
This crop became the best-selling crop of the South in the 1800s
Cotton
This group of slaves were typically the most expensive at auction
This was the best place for slaves from the Upper South to escape to
Canada
Most slaves in America could be found on one of these
Plantation
Immigrants left Ireland in the mid 1800s due to a severe shortage of this food
Potatoes
Along with railroads, these were rarely built in the South prior to the Civil War
Factories
These people took on the responsibility of raising slave children that had been separated from their parents
Other slaves
Safe houses were commonly referred to this
Stations
Women who were not allowed to vote prior to 1920 faced this when going to the voting booth
Discrimination
Canals
This machine inadvertently caused the dramatic increase in the number of slaves in America
Cotton Gin
These were created to reduce the chances of slaves escaping or rebelling
Slave codes
This was the term for a person who wanted to end slavery and may have helped slaves escape
Abolitionist
If the bird flu worsened, the poultry industry might face one of these
Famine
Some factory workers who lost their jobs to immigrants joined this group of people
Nativists
Most slave owners in the South owned fewer than this many slaves
This person was responsible for supervising the slaves that worked in the fields
Overseer
This person was the most famous "conductor" from the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
A person who has been arrested many times may develop this toward police officers
German immigrants to the US made up 16% of this state's population in 1860
Wisconsin
Most white people in the South prior to the Civil War were either tenant farmers or these
Yeomen
Spirituals
Henry "Box" Brown