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John Deere: Invented Steel Plow, and was from Illinois.

Frederick Douglas: A renowned former slave who stood up for black peoples rights.

William Lloyd Garrison: A white abolitionist who also stood up for slaves rights.

Grimke Sisters: The most renowned female abolitionist who stood up for slaves rights.

Cyrus McCormick: Invented the cotton reaper

Mitt Romney: A slave-owner with binders of women who hates 47% of the USA. He is currently the

president of Soviet Russia, and has an army of robot midgets 2 trillion strong.

Samuel Morse: Invented Morse Code, a form of language used in telecommunicaters.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Tubman): An abolitionist who led slaves through the Underground Railroad.

Sojourner Truth: A famous abolitionist who traveled the country speaking about anti-slavery.

Nat Turner: A leader of a slave rebellion who killed their slave owners and various other whites.

Eli Whitney: Most known for inventing the cotton gin.

Abolitionist: A person who wanted to end slavery.

Capital: Life-Threatening .

Clipper Ship: A three-mast ships used for transporting goods.

Discrimination: certain hatred against someones race, sex, religion, or etc.

Famine: Starving, Hunger

Morse Code: Code used in telegraphs to transmit information; - or .

Nativist: A person whos origin was from America, but extends to Great Britain.

Overseer: The judge or ruler of certain clans.

Prejudice: An unfair opinion judged before meeting someone.

Slave Code: Code used by slaves to communicate discreetly.

Spiritual: A genre of song sung by African-Americans that relates to blues.

Strike: A rebellion that continues until a special service is supplied.

Telegraph: A machine used to transmit information. It usually used Morse Code.

Tenant Farmer: A farmer that produces cash crops that doesnt use many slaves.

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Trade Union: A union formed in order to attempt to gain more rights from their owners.

Underground Railroad: A path that slaves used to escape their plantations to get to the North.

Yeoman: Farmers who didnt own slaves, mainly because they were too poor to.

The North was transformed due to factories, water and coal power, and the idea of free enterprise,

while the South was transformed due to the cotton gin, more slaves being imported, and the steel mill.

The North was affected in mixed ways, because even though capitalism and trade became incredibly

popular and drove the country to success, there were still poor working conditions and immigrants

coming to take jobs for cheap price, which possibly raised the unemployment rate. The South did have

an incredibly high rate of cotton production, but the idea of slavery wasnt too popular, and eventually

led to the Civil War.

Nativists didnt like immigrants at all mainly because they took jobs for a considerably lower price, which

kept them in factories instead of the nativists.

Abolitionists methods to drive slavery away included them burning down plantations, escaping to the

North to spread their word, and make a union called the Anti-Slavery Society.