APUSH Period 5 Vocab flashcard

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In the South, Plantations were areas where...

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Crops were grown through the labor of workers, usually slaves, who lived on the land.

Front

What is Commerce?

Back

Money/Trading with money

Front

Cotton from the South was sent North to make...

Back

Textiles

Front

Aristocracy?

Back

The upper or high class of society.

Front

Canal:

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A man-made waterway for shipping goods via boats.

Front

Safe houses for escaped slaves to reach the North and Canada?

Back

Underground Railroad

Front

Law allowing states to choose slavery practice.

Back

Popular Sovereignty

Front

Transportation system connecting Western states to the U.S.?

Back

Transcontinental Railroad

Front

Against slavery?

Back

Abolitionist

Front

Congressman who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act for the Central route of the Transcontinental Railroad?

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Stephen Douglas