Technology
This device revolutionized the processing of raw cotton.
The Cotton Gin
Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Broad Street is a segment of this early American road
The National Road
Laws that controlled the lives of those in captivity
slave codes
The rapid manufacture of large amounts
mass production
This machine revolutionized how plants are harvested.
mechanical reaper
Inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
The Erie Canal
The movement to end slavery in America
Abolition
Products became less expensive and faster to assemble due to this feature of mass production.
interchangeable parts
This machine revolutionized how grains are separated from the inedible parts of plants.
mechanical thresher
Led a famous slave revolt in Virginia
Nat Turner
Most improvements in transportation were to make moving goods and people in this direction.
West
Born into slavery and became a famous orator, author and abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
Industry that drove the industrial revolution
Textiles
This natural source powered the early mills.
water
He built inexpensive hospitals, schools, and housing for his workers.
Francis Lowell
Transportation system that replaced canals
Trains or Railroads
Law that delayed the Civil War
the Missouri Compromise
The loss of farm jobs drove this as people moved from the country to the city.
urbanization
This powered America's factories before the advent of electricity.
steam
Brought Richard Arkwright's designs to America.
Samuel Slater
Roads that were paved with split logs
corduroy roads
After 1820, what is the specific dividing line between slave and free states in the west?
36 degrees, 30 minutes
Instant message machines of the 1840s
telegraph