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Alabama History Chapter 5
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yeoman
a person who owns and works a small farm
yeoman
a person who owns and works a small farm
speculator
a person who buys something planning to sell it later for a profit
planter
a person owned a plantation
navigable
passable by ship [if a waterway is deep and wide enough for ships
fronteir
land beyond settled area
economy
includes all the things people do to make and sell goods and sevices
squatter
a person who cleared and settled land without ownershipof the land
cotton gin
a machine invented by Eli Whitney that takes cottonseeds out of the white fiber [bolls];short
for cotton engine
freedman
a black person who was not a slave