Chapter 9 Vocabulary

Represented Missouri in the US Senate for 30 years.

A sweet bread containing fruit and nuts.

A large farm on which cotton, tobacco, sugarcane, or coffee are raised by laborers who live there.

Made a new grain reaper.

These people were called Yankees.

People chosen to do religious duties.

Was known as the “people’s president”.

Roast beef soaked in vinegar and spices before cooking.

Was a famous preson that was painted by another famous person.

A picture of a person showing his or her face.

Was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives.

A place where things are made, usually with machines.

Made a new steel plow.

A place where things are made, usually with machines.

Men used this to make meal.

A person from the northern part of the United States.

A machine for harvesting grain.

Sometimes owned large farms called plantations.

Someone or something from another place or country.

Used to make rope.

Was a lawyer who wrote a book describing Missouri that led many German immigrants to Missouri.

Finely cut cabbage salted and soured in its own juice.

Was a pioneer merchant that sold items made from Missouri products.

Someone who leaves one country and settles in another one.

Started Hermann, was the largest group of people to come to Missouri from Europe, had many craftsmen, musicians, and authors, and were good grain farmers.

Was a surgeon for the Union army.

A group of people that worked on the railroad, were laborers, come to Missouri because they were starving due to a potato crop failure.