Topic 7: Antebellum Society and Culture

money invested in a business venture

• capital

• capitalist

• pocket change

• cash

a person who invests in a business to make a profit

• capitalist

• trader
• saver
• borrower

Goods or resources in short supply

• Abundance
• Plenty
• Overflow
• Scarcity

the amount of goods or resources in stock or on hand or available in the market to sell

• Supply
• Stockpile
• Reserve
• Inventory

the movement of population from farms to cities

• Ruralization
• Suburbanization
• Urbanization
• Agriculturalization

a period of rapid economic growth

• economic growth spurt
• boom

• inflation

• business surge

to prepare and work soil for planting and growing crops

• till
• cultivate
• harvest
• prune

laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights

• African American Restrictions
• Enslavement Regulations
• Slave Laws
• Slave Codes

a person who wanted to end slavery

• reformer
• liberator
• abolitionist
• emancipator

the refusal to obey unjust laws using non-violent means

• civil obedience
• civil defiance
• civil resistance
• civil disobedience