Vocab #1
Time when machines replaced hand tools and power changed from people to steam powered
Industrial Revolution
toll road
turnpikes
This speeded up the thread making process
Spinning Jenny
He led the most famous slave revolt in the United States
Nat Turner
Invented the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
Used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fiber
cotton gin
Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the reality of slavery
spirituals
They dominated the Southern society
Plantation owners
This crop is "king" in the South
Cotton
Invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities
urbanization
A channel that is dug across land and filled with water
canal
The best road in early America
Lancaster Turnpike
Secret political party formed in New York City
Know Nothings
Invented the steamboat Clermont
Robert Fulton
the denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people
discrimination
slave codes
The main route across the Appalachian Mountains
Wilderness Road
In Indiana, it was legal to leave a stump in the road this high
15" (15 inches)
He made the first American steam locomotive
Peter Cooper
capitalist
nativists
Irish immigrants came to America due to this
Potato Famine
These people could not...
- vote
- own guns
-testify against a white person
African Americans
Improved the sewing machine
Isaac Singer