US History Topic 8 North and South

Clipper ships

• Were sleek and had tall sails

• Made long journeys shorter

• Shaved time off long journeys with their motors

• Both A and B

• None of the Above

A new development or invention

• Intention

• Innovation

• Inspiration

• Invitation

A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet

• Duey Decimal System

• Morse Code

• Telegraph

• None of the Above

A device that used electrical signals to send messages

• Telephone

• Typography

• Telegraph

• Sonograph

Union group of workers with the same skill or __________

The ability to read or write is known as

• Literacy

• Illiteracy

• Legible

• Illegible

A system to aid the escape of enslaved people

• Slave Trade

• Underground Tunnel

• Underground Railroad

• Underground Trade

laws in Southern states that controlled enslaved people

• Domestic Slave Trade

• Trade

• Slave Trade

• Slave Code

Match the following

• Yeoman

• Farmers who owned small farms

• Overseer

• A person who leaves behind his or her homeland to move elsewhere

• emigrant

• Plantation Manager

• nativist

• A person opposed to immigration

A refusal to work in order to force an employer to make changes