Industrial Revolution - North & South
Prior to the American Revolution, the agriculture industry of the South predominantly consisted of rice, indigo, and this other cash crop
tobacco
Native-born Americans (Americans born in the U.S.) who hold anti-immigration beliefs are known as these
Nativists
It was often common for factory workers to work _____ hours per day
10
A former slave, he founded the Free African Religious Society in the late 1700s
Richard Allen
The nickname of Harriet Tubman
Moses
Eli Whitney invented this machine which could quickly remove seeds from cotton
cotton gin
Buildings divided up into small apartments in which numerous people all lived together in are known as these
tenements
According to the _____, between 1890 and 1910, 18% of children between the ages of 10 and 15 were working.
US Census
Thomas Gallaudet
A network of routes runaway slaves used to escape their lives as a slave in the South
Underground Railroad
The American spy who disguised himself as a farmer and memorized the design of the spinning jenny, in order to steal that design and bring it back to the United States.
Samuel Slater
In the early 1900s, most immigrants to the U.S. came from eastern and southern European nations such as Greece, Italy, and this nation
Russia
Apprentices who quit during their apprenticeship often quit to work in one of these
factory
He led the Common School Movement
Horace Mann
The group of people who helped slaves escape as they believed slavery to be unlawful.
Quakers or Abolitionists
The use of this type of power as an energy source made it much more practical for factories to be built in the South
steam
Many of those who immigrated to the U.S. from Germany during the 1840s-1860s settled here
Midwest
It was often common for factory workers to be required to work _____ days a week
6
Dorothea Dix
These required that escaped slaves who were captured must be returned to their slave holder (owner)
Fugitive Slave Laws
Eventually, Southern leaders became concerned over how reliant the region was on _________goods.
imported
In the late 1800s, most immigrants to the U.S. came from western European nations such as Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, and this nation
Sweden
During the late 1800s, workers in the U.S. had more industrial accidents than
any other industrialized nation
An effort to encourage people to limit their consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Historians have been able to use these to determine people were helping slaves escape as early as the mid-1600s
historical documents