Transportation
This invention made fast upstream possible.
What are steamboats?
A device that used electric signals to send messages.
What is a telegraph?
The average workday for factory employees.
What is 11 hours?
Allowed farmers to cut through the hard prairie sod.
What is the Steel Tipped Plow?
Inventor of the first steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
In the 1840's, builders began to widen and deepen these to make space for steamboats.
What are canals?
A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort.
What is productivity?
Factory owners were often more concerned about this than about employees' comfort and safety.
What is Profits?
In 1831 he led a group of followers on a brief, violent rampage in Southhampton County, Virginia. He and his followers killed at least 55 whites.
Who is Nat Turner?
Designed and built the first American steam-powered locomotive, known as The Tom Thumb.
Who is Peter Cooper?
The first what in the United States ran along short stretches of track that connected mines with nearby rivers.
What are railroads?
A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped.
What is the Underground Railroad?
In the mid-1800s, this took over more and more manufacturing tasks.
What are Machines?
An escaped African American who helped aid over 70 known slaves escape using the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?
By 1860, the nation's railroads formed a network that united the Midwest and what.
What is the East?
A group of workers with the same trade, or skill.
What is a Trade Union?
Most communities in the North did not allow this to attend public schools.
Who are African Americans?
Allowed you to cut grains at a faster pace than by hand
What is the McCormick Reaper?
The first African American licensed, or given official authority, to practice law in the United States.
Who is Macon B. Allen?
Before canals and railroads, farmers sent their crops down this River to New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi?
An unfair opinion not based on facts.
What is Prejudice?
The greatest number of immigrants came from here.
What is Ireland?
A machine that quickly separates the grain from the stalk.
What is the Thresher?
An American inventor who developed a system for sending coded messages instantly along electrical wires.
Who is Samuel Morse?