This innovation dramatically changed the time it took to send messages to others.
What is the telegraph?
100
12 hour days
Unsafe
Child Labor
Unhealthy
No laws protecting workers
What are working conditions in a factory?
100
By the 1830's, slavery largely disappeared in this region of the U.S.
What is the North?
100
Laws in Southern states that governed the behavior and punishment of enslaved people.
What is Slave Codes?
Black Codes?
Negro Laws?
100
Many nativists rejected immigration during the mid 19th century, with over 70% of immigrants coming from these countries.
What are Ireland and Germany?
200
This innovation (along with the building of canals) dramatically changed how goods were transported, making transportation much easier, quicker, and cost effective.
What is the railroads?
200
As a result of work conditions in the factories, many men formed these, which were groups of workers with the same trade who organize together to fight for better conditions at the workplace.
What is trade unions?
200
One example of discrimination of African Americans in the North during the early-mid 19th century.
What is denying voting rights?
What is not allowing African Americans to attend public schools?
What is "African American hospitals?"
200
African Slave, Nat Turner, is known for staging one of these in which 55 white citizens were killed.
What are slave rebellions?
200
While the importation of slaves was banned beginning in 1808, this continued until the 13th Amendment was passed.
What is the domestic slave trade?
300
This innovation made the harvesting of crops much easier and quicker, allowing for more crops to be harvested each year. With this supply increase, the cost of food lowered.
What is the McCormick Reaper?
300
In some cases, when trade unions aren't able to negotiate for better wages, work conditions, etc., they stage these, which is work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer.
What are strikes?
300
Most southern planters were these, which are southern farmers who generally owned small farms and owned few/no slaves.
What is Yeomen Farmers?
300
These famous African abolitionist was influential in helping slaves use the "Underground Railroad" in trying to escape North.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
Slave who escaped to the North and spent the rest of his life as an abolitionist. Hint: You studied him in Mrs. Wagner's class.
Who is Frederick Douglass
400
This innovation in farming equipment made it much easier and quicker to separate grain from the stalk.
What is the thresher?
400
In the 19th century, women factory workers were paid roughly this in pay compared to men
What is 1/2?
400
Many African slaves expressed their hope in Christian teaching by singing these.
What are spirituals?
400
The name given to a house used in the "Underground Railroad?"
What is a safe house?
400
Any act towards a person that degrades them based upon their race.
What is racism?
500
The factory system where workers would work machines on an assembly line caused this.
What is the mass production of goods...lowering the cost of goods to the consumer?
500
It was because of this that manufacturers often hired children to work the factories.
What is manufacturers could pay children lower wages?
500
The first African American centered newspaper.
What is Freedom's Journal?
500
This invention unintentionally led to an increased demand for slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
500
Preconceived opinion of someone based upon their race, gender, or ethnicity.