Trimester 2 (Chapter 11 and 12)

What is the telegraph?

• used electric signals to send messages 
• creates short/long signals that represent words

Creates short/long signals that represent words

• Morse Code
• Telegraph

Yeomen farmers...

• rented land and sometimes had slaves
• small farms w/no slaves and were not wealthy

Slave codes...

• words that slaves use
• laws only for slaves

The Underground Railroad was...

• Series of above ground escape routes from the South to the North
• An underground railroad which led slaves to freedom

Which group was on the top of the social structure in the South?

• white farmers and workers
• plantation owners
• slaves
• industrial workers

The great majority of African Americans in the South were

• free men
• slaves
• industry workers
• plantation owners

Only about one in __________ white families in the South owned even one slave.

• one in six
• one in two
• one in four
• one in ten

Which group was at the bottom of the social structure in the South?

• white farmers and workers
• plantation owners
• slaves
• industrial workers

An _________________________ is a person who moves from one country to another)

• Immigrant
• peasant
• student
• slave