Inventions
invented in 1844
What was the telegraph?
the largest group of immigrants to the United States
Who are the Irish?
supervised plantation buildings and fruit and vegetable gardens
Who are the plantation wives?
worked in the house cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, sewing, and serving meals
Who are the domestic slaves?
the chief means for transporting goods in the South
What are natural waterways?
Who was Samuel Morse?
the second largest group of immigrants to the United States
Who are the Germans?
extended credit to planters and held the cotton for several months until the price rose
Who are agents?
worked from sunrise to sunset
Who are field hands?
What are canals?
the first steam powered locomotive
What was the Rocket?
the reason the Irish immigrated to the U.S.
What is a potato famine?
their main economic goal was to earn profit
Who are the plantation owners?
stubbornly independent and were looked down on but were proud of their independence
Who are the rural poor?
carried goods and passengers cheaper and quicker
What are steamboats?
two inventions that improved agriculture
What are the steel-tipped plow and the mechanical reaper?
the failure of this was one reason they Germans came to the U.S.
What is a democratic revolution?
Who are tenant farmers?
the group of immigrants that worked as servants and factory workers
Who are the Irish?
there were nearly 31,000 miles of this by 1860
What are railroad tracks?
the group of immigrants that bought their own farms or opened businesses
Who are the Germans?
farmers who did not have slaves and made up the largest group of whites in the South
Who are yeomen?
the sole job of the Upper South in regards to slavery
What is selling and transporting slaves?
the year the first American steam locomotive was built
What is 1830?