lesson 1
created the reaper
who is Cyrus McCormick
workers held these to get better working conditions
what is strikes
Souths economy was based on
what is farming
farmers who generally owned small farms of 50 to 200 acres
Yeomen
a work stoppage by employees as a protest against there employers
strikes
Company that made the steel tipped toe plow
who is john deere
women were paid
half as much
the south mainly grew
what is cotton
rented land from property owners
what is a tenant farmers
permitted by law
legal
made the first railroad in the united states
who is John Stevens
immigrants came most from
Ireland
industry in the north was slow to start
because it was too much money to start factories
these people were often stubborn and independent
rural poor
groups of workers with the same trade or skill
trade unions
designed and built the first steam powered locomotive
Peter Cooper
children worked
6-12 hours a day
to travel the south used
natural waterways
slave codes
The laws in the south that controlled enslaved people
a device that used electric signals to send messages
telegraph
a device that used electric signals to send voice messages
what is the telegraph
politician party that said i know nothing
who is the know nothing party
created the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
enslaved people used this to escape and get to the north
underground railroad
a system of dots and dashes that represented the alphabet
Morse code