Lesson 1
a device that used electric signals to send messages
What is the Telagraph?
Working conditions worsened as the factory system developed. Employees worked long hours. By 1840, the average workday was 11.4 hours. Longer days caused fatigue and on-the-job accidents.
What were Factory conditions?
The Upper South grew more tobacco, hemp, wheat, and vegetables.
What did the upper south grow?
an African American religious folk song
What was a spiritual?
a new development or invention
innovation
unfair treatment
what is discrimination
Children in factories often worked six days a week and 12 hours or more a day. The work was dangerous and hard. Young workers tended machines in mills and worked underground in coal mines.
What is child labor?
The Upper South grew more tobacco, hemp, wheat, and vegetables.
What did the deep south grow?
plantation manager
What is Overseer?
ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped” time from long journeys
Clipper ships
a new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines which were too large to house in a worker's cottage.
What is a factory system during this time period?
group of workers with the same trade, or skill
What are Trade unions?
Boom in cotton
What did industry develop slowy?
law in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
What are Slave codes?
a work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer
Strike
a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run.
What is a railroad?
Employers often paid women half as much as they paid male workers. Men kept women from joining unions and wanted them kept out of the workplace.
what was it hard for woman workers?
He opened his own textile factory.
What did William Gregg do?
in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and his followers killed at least 55 whites.
What did Nat turner do?
The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States
Domestic slave trade
a person or machine that harvests a crop.
What is a reaper?
person opposed to immigration
What is a nativist?
The process through which cities grow
What is the growth of cities?
a system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
What is the Underground Railroad
farmer who owns a small farm
yeoman