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vocab lesson 4
Vocab lesson 2
100
uses electric signals to send messages
What was the telegraph?
100
escaped from slavery using the underground railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
100
moving belts, no protection
What is a factory?
100
permitted by the law.
What was legal?
100
protest to get better working conditions.
What is a strike?
200
invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
200
Led a revolt that killed 55 whites
Who was Nat Turner?
200
worked 11 hours
How long did workers work in a day?
200
Farmer who owned a small farm.
What was a yeomen?
200
group of workers with the same skill
What is a trade union?
300
Machine that cut through the hard prairie sod.
What was the steel tipped plow?
300
slaves feared them the most
Who is an overseer?
300
no laws to protect people in factories
What is a factory rule?
300
plantation manager
What was an overseer?
300
person opposed to immigartion
What is a nativist?
400
machine that cut wheat and placed it into groups
what was the Reaper?
400
A trail of safe house that slaves used to escape
What was the underground railroad?
400
took many years to pass.
What is how long it took to pass child laws?
400
African American folk song.
What is a spiritual?
400
unfair opinion
What is a prejudice?
500
separated grain from stalk
What was the threshing machine?
500
Always worked under a fear
What is a slave?
500
The 1800 it was illegal
What is the year was striking illegal
500
law that controlled enslaved people
What was a slave code?
500
extreme shortage of food
What was a famine?