1. VOCABULARY CHAPTER 7 LESSONS 1 AND 2

2. MERCHANTS Middle class people that buy and sell goods

3. OVERSEER A person who managed the workers on a large plantation

4. YEOMAN FARMER Independent farmer who owned a small amount of land and worked it himself

5. CHARLESTON Large port city that allowed colonist to trade with other countries

6. ARTISANS Skilled workers

7. MAP SCALE Short measurement tool that allows a person using a map to measure very long distances

8. ELI WHITNEY Invented the cotton gin

9. COTTON GIN A machine that cleans cotton bolls of their seeds

10. ABOLITIONISTS People who worked to abolish or end slavery

11. SARA AND ANGELINA GRIMKE Sisters from Charleston who spoke out against slavery

12. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Secret routes enslaved people used to escape to the North and Canada

13. JOHN C. CALHOUN Supported states’ rights

14. STATES’ RIGHTS Each state has the right to make its own decisions about slavery and about other matters.

15. COMPROMISE OF 1850 Passed by Congress to settle the issues of states’ rights and slavery

16. COMPROMISE Occurs when each side gives up some of their demands to settle an argument

17. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW Stated that the North would have to return enslaved people to the South

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