Industry in the North
Helped to spread trade and aid in expansion in the North.
What is canals and railways?
An organization of workers with the same trade.
What is a trade union?
The South's main cash crop?
What was cotton?
Type of farmer made up the largest group of whites in the South and they did not own slaves.
Who were small white farmers?
Has sleek hulls and tail sails, and was as fast as most steamships.
What were clipper ships?
Built in Britain in 1829? Hint: it is steam powered.
What is locomotive or train?
Refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers.
What is a strike?
The major cities in the South.
What where New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond?
Type of farmer rented land and worked on their landlord's estate or property.
What was tenant farmer/poor whites?
Invented in 1807 by Robert Fulton and revolutionized trade on rivers.
What were steamboats?
Factories that used this type of power could be built anywhere.
What is stream power?
An extreme shortage of food.
What is famine?
Separates a cotton seed from fibers and it helped speed up the production process of cotton.
What is the cotton gins?
Laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people.
What were slave codes?
Invented by John Deere and helped in tilling hard land.
What was the steel plow?
Two innovations that made it faster to travel and transport? Direct ways to get from east coast to the Midwest.
What is canals and railways?
Party that opposed immigration and called for stricter citizenship laws.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
The main crops in the South besides cotton.
What were rice, tobacco, and sugar?
Social group owned the majority of slaves and controlled the social and political life of the South.
What were planters?
Innovation sped the harvesting of wheat.
What is the mechanical reaper?
Growth of cities in the North was due to these two factors.
What is cities became industrialized and immigration?
What three groups were discriminated against in the north and in factories?
Women, African Americans, and Immigrants
Provided the chief means of transporting goods in the South.
What were natural waterways or rivers?
Led a slave revolt in 1831
Who was Nat Turner?
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages.
What is the telegraph?