Southern Life and Slavery
his became the South’s most important cash crop after tobacco prices fell.
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What is cotton?
The 1840s Irish immigration wave was caused by this event.
What is the potato famine?
Factory jobs were appealing because they provided this.
What is immediate income (vs. long apprenticeships)?
This communication device revolutionized long-distance messaging.
What is the telegraph?
This movement aimed to provide schooling for all children.
What is the Common-School Movement?
These events were devastating for enslaved families, often leading to separation.
What are slave auctions?
This group feared immigrants would take jobs and lower wages.
Who are nativists?
This fuel replaced wood as the main power source.
What is coal?
He tested the first commercial steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
He pushed to improve public education.
Who is Horace Mann?
Wealthy white Southerners used this argument to justify slavery.
What is "God wanted them to rule over others"?
She led prison reform for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This invention changed steel production and relied on coal.
What is the Bessemer process?
This act helped fund the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862?
Workers feared speaking out because they could be ____.
What is fired for any reason?
These people supervised household work and enslaved laborers in the home.
Who are plantation wives?
This movement aimed to reduce alcohol consumption.
What is the temperance movement?
This was a major safety hazard in factories.
What is fire due to locked exits and overcrowding?
Chicago became a major rail hub because of this reason.
What is its central location connecting East, West, and South?
A labor strike is this.
What is when workers stop working to protest unfair conditions?
Poor white Southerners typically lived in these conditions.
What are poor rural homes with odd jobs and subsistence living?
This college was the first to admit African American students.
What is Oberlin College?
Children contributed to industrial growth by doing this.
What is providing cheap labor and fitting into small spaces?
This fuel source powered steam locomotives, boats, and factories.
What is coal?
He founded the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?