Chapter 18-20 Vocab

2. ______ Proviso: proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War
3. ______ Gin: a hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material
6. ________: is a person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests
8. ________: a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)
9. __________ Revolution: the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
11. _______________ Debates a series of political debates between candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator
14. _____________ is a person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry

1. __________ of 1850: the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state.
3. ___________: a loose association of states with separate governments or the South during the Civil War
4. _______________ Act: an act passed in 1854 that allowed settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
5. ____ Scott Decision: held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
7. ________Compromise of ____: Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
10. _________:is a large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers who lived on the land
12. _____________: the clearing away of forests
13. _____: the United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, the North.
15. ___________ are new ideas, methods, or inventions
16. _________ person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration