A famine in this country cause an influx of immigrants into the United States.
What is Ireland?
The second largest group of immigrants into the United States at the time were from this country.
What is Germany?
This person was in charge of watching over enslaved workers in the fields.
What is the overseer?
Many of the immigrants from this country became servants and factory workers
What is Ireland?
He led a slave revolt in 1831.
Who was Nat Tuner?
He invented the sewing machine.
Who is Elias Howe?
A large group of southerners small plots of land and maybe one or two slaves.
Small white farmers?
He designed the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
Immigrants from this region generally settled in the middle of the United States.
What is Germany?
Social group that owned the majority of slaves and controlled the social and political life of the South?
What were planters?
The "king" of the South.
What is cotton?
Workers staged this to put pressure on employers.
What is strike?
He invented the steel-tipped plow.
Who is John Deere?
Most of the enslaved workers worked as this.
What is field hand?
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages?
What is the telegraph?
He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write.
What is slave code?
Helped to spread trade and aid in expansion in the North?
What is canals and railways?
An organization of workers with the same trade.
What is a trade union?
Has sleek hulls and tail sails, and was as fast as most steamships.
Clipper ships
He invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This took over the task of weaving from individuals.
What are power driven looms?
He led a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion against their masters in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Provided the chief means of transporting goods in the South.
What are natural waterways or rivers?
Three groups that were discriminated against in the north and in factories.
Women, African Americans, and Immigrants