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Sectionalism
100
Harriet Tubman
Who was the Conductor of a secret network to help runaway slaves?
100
Cyrus Mc Cormick
Who was the Inventor of the mechanical reaper, increasing the amount of wheat crops that farmers could harvest?
100
Organizations of workers with the same trade or skill.
What were trade unions?
100
Slave Codes and Spirituals
What were Southern laws passed to prevent slave rebellions and what was the name of the religious folk songs sung by enslaved people as they prayed for their freedom?
100
Cotton farming produced great profits and the market for manufactured goods was limited due to enslaved people making up a large share of the population...
Why did industry develop slowly in the South?
200
Nat Turner
Who was the religious leader that organized slave revolt in VA, 1831?
200
System for sending coded messages over the telegraph
What is the Morse Code? (developed by Samuel Morse)
200
Action taken by workers in order to put pressure on employers.
What are strikes?
200
The Underground Railroad
What was the network of "safe" houses that helped runaway slaves escape to freedom?
200
Sections of the country that employed immigrants and had advanced canals and 3,000 miles of track by 1840.
What was the North and Midwest?
300
Elias Howe
Who was the Inventor of the sewing machine, 1846?
300
Inventor of the cotton gin, increasing the South's cotton productivity by 50X
Who was Eli Whitney?
300
Nativists
What were people who resisted or were against immigration in the 1830s-40s, believing that immigration threatened the future of American-born citizens?
300
Improvements in sailing technology, these were built in the 1840s and cut sea journeys in half.
What were clipper ships?
300
Specific section of the country where most of the industrialization and urban centers developed by the 1860s.
What was the Northeast?
400
John Deere
Who was the Inventor of the steel-tipped plow to help farmers cut through prairie grass?
400
Designer and builder of the 1st American steam-powered locomotive with its unusual name
Who was Peter Cooper and his locomotive, The Tom Thumb?
400
Political Party formed in 1849 that called for stricter citizenship laws
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
400
Great Train Wreck of 1856
What was the incident that occurred between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, PA when two trains slammed into each other, considered one of the worst railroad accidents in history? What is an unfair opinion of a person/group, without being based upon fact and unfairly treating a person/group based upon race, religion, gender, age, etc.?
400
Most of the white people in the South were these farmers who owned small farms of 50-200 acres and grew crops themselves;
Who were the yeomens?
500
Macon B. Allen
Who was the 1st licensed African American lawyer, 1845?
500
Weaver from MA, founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization in 1845, and petitioned for a 10 hour workday.
Who was Sarah Bagley?
500
Industrialization
What was the development of goods and products being produced in mass production in factories rather than homes, which led to the rise of cities that used new technology, transportation, and improved communications?
500
A 270-foot side-wheel steamer that steamed into a hurricane with a full load of passengers and sank off the coast of the Carolinas, drowning hundreds of people.
What was the SS Central America?
500
The two center of the domestic slave trade that grew tobacco, hemp, wheat, and vegetables; included Atlantic coastal states.
What was the Upper South? (*Distinguish between the Upper South & the Deep South!)
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