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Cities were....
Populated, Dirty, and Crowded
D.O.I was written by...?
D.O.S was written by...?
D.O.I- Men
D.O.S- Women
Who is Eli Whitney?
Created the cotton gin, thought would decrease slavery, but it increased, also created interchangeable parts
Who is Richard Arkwright?
Created textile mills and spinning jenny, water power replaced manpower
Who is Samuel Slater?
Escaped England after he studied/memorized all the machinery, he partners with Lowell and they begin a factory
What was the Know-Nothing party?
Secret society created by NYC, they got 21% votes for 1856 presidential election, soon splits over issue of slavery
What is the D.O.S
All men and women are equal, copy of D.O.I, but women changed it a little and put in more arrangements for womens rights
What is "the liberator?"
Newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist newspaper
2nd Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival, a new way of life, led to lots of new inventions and prohibition
What was the Seneca Falls Convention and who were the 2 women who organized it?
Organized by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attracted 300 women and men, spoke about changes in social,civil, and religious rights for women, D.O.S modeled after the convention
What are clipper ships?
Yankee Clipper Ships were made for ocean travel and were the fastest in the world for a short time (1850)
What is the Erie canal?
Runs directly through New York, meets with the Hudson river, made NYC the most popular and largest port city
What is the Temperance Movement?
The end of alcohol and all problems with it (Prohibition- ban on alcohol)
What was the underground railroad?
A underground transit, people of different colors worked together to help escaped slaves to the north
What is a Nativist?
Immigrants who wanted to preserve America for white protestants, they became upset for growing foreign population
Industrialization
The large scale introduction of manufacturing and advanced technology to a region or country
Who created the spinning jenny and what was it's use?
Richard Arkwright, and to thread cotton without doing it by hand.
What is Mass Production?
Creating more than you need
What are interchangeable parts and who created them?
Created by Eli Whitney, one universal part that can fit on different items
What is Morse Code and who created it?
Created by Samuel F.B. Morse, used through a telegraph, communication across states
Antebellum
Before the war
Agrarian
Plantation Farming
Who created the Cotton Gin and what was it's use?
Eli Whitney, and to separate the seeds from the cotton without doing it by hand.
Urbanization
People (specifically women) moved from the countryside to cities for jobs and cities increased greatly after this
Why is cotton called "King Cotton"?
It was the most desired crop in the south