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| ship with sleek hulls and tall sales that clipped time from a long journey |
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| A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet |
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| A device that used electric signals to send messages |
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| A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort |
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| The trade of enslaved people within the United States |
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| farmers who owned small farms |
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| African-American religious song |
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| laws in southern states that control the enslaved people |
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| A system to aid the escape of enslaved people |
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| The ability to read and write |
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| reformers who worked to abolish, or end, slavery in the early 1800s in the United States |
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| A person who runs away from the law |
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| armed pro slavery supporters who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas |
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| fighting between citizens of the same country |
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| A person who dies for a cause |
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| The idea that states have the right to control their own affairs, and the federal government does not |
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| A farmer who owns 20 slaves |
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| The small percentage of wealthy southern families owning 50 or more slaves were given the title because they made a vast fortune from growing or selling cotton |
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| A free African-American and skilled carpenter, who organized the rebellion in Charleston but was captured and executed before the rising could begin |
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| A slave who let the deadliest slave rebellion in the history of the United States on August 21, 1831 |
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| A policy or an attitude that denies equal rights to a certain group of people |
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| Connecticut school teacher who invented a machine to remove the seeds from raw cotton |
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| an area of the United States referring to cotton plantations which stretched from South Carolina through Alabama and Mississippi to Texas |
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| and engine "gin" that used 2 rollers and then thin wire teeth to separate the seeds from the cotton fibers |
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| to sell a cop for profit instead of being used by the grower |
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