Northern Industry
The term for any cloth item used in production is this.
What is TEXTILES
The overall impact of the Transportation Revolution was it made the speed of communication, trade, and transportation this.
What is FASTER
This is the device that could send information over wires across great distances.
What is the TELEGRAPH
These large-scale farmers usually would own more than 20 slaves down in the south.
Who were PLANTERS
The people who were hired to watch over and direct the working of slaves in the south.
Who were OVERSEERS
Most of the early mills built in the North during this time were built around this for power.
What is a STREAM (WATER)
The first full-size commerical steamboat built was Robert Fulton was named this.
What is the CLERMONT
The code used in electronic messaging for the first time was named after the inventor of the machine, Samuel B.
What is the MORSE CODE
Despite cotton being well known as vital to the South, this crop was also important and the primary food crop of the region.
What is CORN
Not all slaves worked on plantations and farms, some slaves were able to work as these, mostly factory hands and day laborers.
What are DOMESTIC SERVANTS
Eli Whitney, a prominent inventor at the time, came up with the idea of this that made fixing machines a lot easier.
What is INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS
The Supreme Court ruling Gibbons v. Ogden found that what shipping laws would overrule all others in the United States.
What is FEDERAL LAWS
Eli Whitney, a prominent inventor at the time, came up with the idea of this that made removing the cotton seeds easier for farm owners.
Was is the COTTON GIN
Because of the distances that families were from one another, this gathering every week became one of the only times people saw each other in the South.
What are CHURCH GATHERINGS
Because slaves were not usually taught how to read and write, family history was passed from generation to generation in this format.
What is ORAL TRADITION
In Samuel Slater's Rhode Island system, this was given to workers instead of money for their work.
What was CREDIT
The Tom Thumb, built by Peter Cooper, was the first major one of these. It defeated horses in races to show its power and potential.
What is a TRAIN LOCOMOTIVE
John Deere was selling this many of his steel plows a year by the time 1846 rolled around.
What is about 1,000
What did some southern people use as "proof" that slavery was fine and actually very important in life.
What is the BIBLE
This was the route that many African American slaves tried to use to get to freedom in the North.
What was the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Sarah Bagley, a leading woman in the American labor movement, fought hard for what significant right for workers in the mills.
What was the TEN HOUR WORKDAY
These two natural resources became very valuable and important within the Transportation Revolution.
What is COAL and STEEL
Issac Singer modified this machine, making it more affordable and life in the American home easier.
What is the SEWING MACHINE
Despite what you might believe, there were acutally freed African Americans that lived in the South. Around this many were living there by 1860.
What is over 250,000
One of the first slaves to try a revolution that could hopefully end slavery in the South, this man's actions led to the death of many white slaveholders, and African slaves.
Who was NAT TURNER