Industrial Revolution
Shift toward manufacturing in factories with machines in the North
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Refusing to work until demand are met
What is a strike?
The Souths economy was based on
What is agriculture?
Political party that supported Nativists
People who could not pay money that they owed
What is debtors?
Engine that pulled trains
What is Locomotive?
An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society
What is Social Reform?
Souths most profitable cash crop
What is Cotton?
Nickname for young girls working in factories
The difference between the cost to produce a good and its selling price
What is profit?
Movement of the population from rural areas to cities
What is urbanization?
Religious movement that swept the nation in the 1800's
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Laws passed in Southern states to keep enslaved African Americans from running away
What is Slave Codes?
People who believed the country should be preserved for native born white citizens
What is Nativists?
The idea of extended family originated in
What is Africa?
Brought workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods.
What is the factory system?
Campaign against alcohol abuse
What is the temperance movement?
Invention that led to a boom in cotton production
What is the Cotton Gin?
The expansion of the ____________ allowed more people to move into the cities.
What is railroad?
Outdoor religious retreats to stir up feelings
What is revivals?
The industrial revolution machines replaced
What is hand tools?
Organization of workers who pushed for better working conditions
What is trade union?
Who is Nat Turner?
People who invested money into a business with the hope of making a profit
What is capitalist?
In the mid - 1800's thousands of people fled from England and Ireland to the United States due to
What is famine?