U4.2 Vocabulary

1. period of time before the US Civil War
6. a person who favors the end of slavery
8. act of ending or stopping a system
10. a machine that revolutionized American agriculture by efficiently separating seeds from short-staple cotton fiber.
11. a large-scale agricultural estate, typically located in tropical or semi-tropical regions, dedicated to cultivating cash crops like cotton, tobacco, coffee, or sugar cane, often utilizing coerced labor.
13. state of being an enslaved person
14. purchase of territory by the USA from France in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson
15. an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.

2. a 400-year, systematic, forced migration of 12–15 million African people to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries, primarily carried out by Portuguese, British, French, and Spanish traders.
3. an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
4. the systematic buying, selling, and forced migration of over one million enslaved people within the United States, driven by the expanding cotton economy.
5. 19th century belief that expansion of the US throughout the North American continent was justified
7. to make money or be beneficial in other ways.
9. wealth and resources of a nation
12. a system in which people are forcibly controlled, denied freedom, and treated as property by others.