Section 1
This device sent electrical signals from a wire
Telegraph
This is the term for Union workers refusing to do their jobs
Strike
The term for people that worked jobs with little to no training
Unskilled Workers
This man parented a seed planter
Henry Blair
This man build a sewing machine that was able to sew faster than 5 seamstresses
Elias Howe
The term for people who learned a trade such as shoe-making or carpentry
Skilled Workers
The term for a person who enters a country to settle there
Immigrant
The term for a close-knit group of Grandparents, cousins, parents, children, aunts, and uncles
Extended Family
This man got a patent for the telegraph and had a coding that is known as Morse Code
Samuel F.B Morse
Famine
This African American lawyer and judge presented cases to the Supreme Court
John Rock
This man invented the machine that revolutionized sugar making
Norbert Rilleux
This is the term for a big vessel with a tall mast and huge sail that would catch every gust of wind
Clipper Ship
The term for an American who wanted to preserve the country for native-born white Americans
Nativist
The term for a policy or attitude that denied equal rights to certain groups of people
Discrimination
This man modeled his cotton on the mills of Lowell Massachusetts, built houses and gardens for workers, and made schools for children.
William Gregg
This man invented the lightweight plow from steel, which made it easier to prepare a farm
John Deere
This rich African American had a successful sailmaking business in Philadelphia
James Forton
This woman formed the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association to demand 10 hour days from the state legislatures
Sarah Bagley
This African American preacher led a big revolt, went through Virginia killing more than 50 whites, and increased fear of uprisings from enslaved African Americans.
Nat Turner