Vocab
Innovation
New ideas or methods
What did manufacturers build so that products could be made more quickly?
Factories
Where did most immigrants settle when they came to America?
Cities
What was the main crop of the Deep South?
Cotton
What were the laws called in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people?
slave codes
Discrimination
Unfair treatment of a group
What does Infrastructure mean?
the creation of roads, powerlines, and buildings.
Few were allowed to vote, could not attend public school, had to go to separate schools and hospitals.
What invention led to an increase in cotton production in the South?
Cotton Gin
What was the network of escape routes and safe houses to help slaves escape called?
Underground railroad
Capital
Money invested in businesses
What two things transformed trade in the United States?
Canals and Railways
Give two examples of poor working conditions for factory workers.
long work days, hot factories, no heat in the winter, loss of fingers, and workers' lives because of equipment.
The Upper South became a center for selling and transporting:
slaves
Who led the slave uprising in Virginia?
Nat Turner
Money invested in businesses
Farmers who rented or worked on landlords estates
What invention sped up the harvesting of wheat?
Mechanical Reaper
To improve working conditions, workers with the same trade or skill formed:
Trade Unions
How were most goods transported for trade in the South
river
On plantations, most ensalved African Americans worked as:
field hands
Peter Cooper
Designed and built the first steam locomotive
Who designed the first steam-powered locomotive in America?
Who were the two largest groups of immigrants to the U.S. between 1840 and 1860?
Irish and Germans
What did the South depend on to support its thriving economy?
slaves
List two famous escaped slaves:
Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas