Vocabulary
Machine used to separate cotton seeds from cotton fibers?
What is the Cotton Gin?
A South Carolinian merchant who founded a textiles factory.
Who is William Gregg.
This region sells Tobacco, Wheat, Hemp and vegetables.
What is Upper South?
Skilled workers formed these so they could talk about their same trade, or skill.
What are trade unions?
The percent of immigrants in 1860.
What is 13%?
Machine that was used to improve the process of farming?
what is the Steel-Tipped Plow?
Took over Tredegar Iron Works and made it the nation's leading iron producer.
Who is Joseph Reid Anderson.
This regions primary export was cotton.
What is Deep South?
Skilled workers did this to change how they worked.
What are strikes?
The average workday of a facotry worker.
What is 11.4 Hours?
Money to invest in business.
What is Capital?
Creator of the Cotton Gin?
Who was Eli Whitney?
Along with cotton the deep south also sold these crops.
What are sugarcane and rice?
An unfair opinion not based on facts.
What is prejudice?
The First African American licensed to practice law in the US.
Who is Macon B. Allen?
Another word for results.
What are consequences?
Creator of Steel-Tipped Plow?
Who was John Deere?
The Souths lack of this was the reason they never created factories.
What is Capital?
Unfair treatment of a group.
What is discrimination?
The Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization petitioned for a workday this long.
What is 10 Hours.
The word to describe what the Cotton Gin did to the cotton fibers.
What is processed?
Creator of the Locomotive?
Who was Peter Cooper?
The North's economy was centered around this.
What are factories?
Wouldn't allow free African Americans to attend public schools.
What is communities?
Founder of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?