Antebellum Era

excessive concern for local interests only rather than looking at the greater good for all

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

• abolitionism

• patriotism

the time period before the Civil War began

• Reconstruction Era

• Progressive Era

• Antebellum Era

a machine for separating the fibers of the cotton from the seeds

• cotton gin

• telegraph

• cotton wheel

inventor of the cotton gin

• Thomas Edison

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Eli Whitney

someone who is running away or escaping

• abolitionist

• fugitive

• martyr

a person who actively fought to end slavery in the United States

• abolitionist

• fugitive

• martyr

a violent action in opposition to a government or law

• abolition

• martyr

• revolt

• protest

a type of manager; in the South, they were in charge of the plantations and slaves

• abolitionist

• martyr

• overseer

large farm or estate in the South before the Civil War

• plantation

• suburbs

• city

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people and that they should have the power to decide if there should be slavery or not in new territories

• abolitionism

• popular sovereignty

• patriotism