Vocabulary
Innovation
A new development or invention
Steel Tip Plow
This machine allowed farmers to cut through the prairie sad allowing them to farm
What were the three phases of Industrialization?
In the first phase employers divided jobs into smaller steps,In the second phase entrepreneurs built factories to bring specialized workers together,In the third phase, workers used machines to complete tasks
What were the working conditions for factory workers?
Pour working conditions/environment, and long hours
The south had an economy based almost entirely on what?
Farming
Clipper Ship
Ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped” time from long journeys
Thresher
Machine that separates the grain from the sock McComick/reaper this machine allowed farmers to harvest grain at a much faster rate
Who designed and built the first Americans steam powered locomotive?
Peter Cooper
In the North slavery has disappeared but what still existed?
Prejudice and discrimination
In order to continue the thriving southern economy south was going to need more what?
Slaves
Transform
To change significantly
Telegraph
A device that used electric signals to send messages
By the 1860’s the u.s had 31,000 miles of track mostly running where
North and Midwest
Not all African Americans could attend what?
Public schools
European mills now wanted what?
Southern cotton
Telegraph
A device that used electric signals to send messages
Underground Railroads
A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
Where did the Great Train Wreck of 1856 occur?
Between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Immigrants manly came form what country's?
Ireland and Germany
Who invents the cotton gin which removes the seed form the cotton faster?
Eli Whitney
Slave Code
Law in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
Mores Code
A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
Who developed a system for sending coded messages along a electrical wire?
Samuel Morse
Who believed immigration threated American citizens
Nativist
The cotton gin will encourage the farmers to grow more cotton witch leads to a increase in what?
Slave labor