Industry and Economy
What are women workers called?
What is the Lowell System?
What is a large farm run predominantly by slaves called?
Plantation System
What is the place were people are crowded in houses?
What are Tenements?
The period of economic growth in the United States pre-Civil War.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What is a large-scale production?
What is Mass Production?
How many people did slaves count as?
3/5
What are anti-immigrant beliefs?
What is Nativism?
What is instant communication?
What is a telegraph?
The name of the tool that rapidly speeds cotton cleaning.
What is the cotton gin
Who created the Textile Mills?
Samuel Slater
What was the South referred to as during this time period?
Cotten Kingdom or King Cotten
What is ending slavery usually called?
What is Abolition
What is the name for a water route?
What is a Erie Canal?
What was a strong devotion to one's religion called?
Sectionalism
An American inventor who developed the cotton gin; also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts within factories.
What is Eli Whitney