The South
Important People
Inventions
The North
Definitions
100
State added to the slave states in the South by the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri
100
Inventor of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
100
Made removing the seeds from the fibers of cotton much easier.
What is the cotton gin.
100
State added to the North by the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine.
100
Movement of people into an area that is not their native land.
What is immigration
200
Major cash crops in the South
What is cotton & tobacco
200
Inventor of the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse.
200
Harvested more wheat with fewer workers.
What is mechanical reaper.
200
Reason the Irish came to America.
What is the potato famine (starvation)
200
People who wanted to preserve the country for white, American born protestants.
What are nativists.
300
The economy of the South
What is agriculture
300
Built a mill which had both weaving and spinning which employed young women.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
300
Used electrical signals to send messages which made communication easier.
What is the telegraph.
300
right that African Americans in the North were often denied.
What is the right to vote.
300
Increasing growth in an area, normally a city
What is urbanization
400
Types of jobs enslaved African Americans performed (List 2)
What is farm labor, house keeper, nannies, butlers
400
Persuaded Congress wit approve the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay.
400
Made it possible to spin thread faster.
What is the spinning jenny.
400
5 factors that led to the growth of cities (Pros to Urbanization)
What is industrial innovations, transportation, jobs-agriculture, immigration, opportunity.
400
Denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people.
What is discrimination
500
Argument FOR slave labor
What is more humane than free labor in the north & slaves did not have to worry about finding a job
500
Slave who rebelled againist owner, killing about 60 people.
Who is Nat Turner.
500
Allowed for factories to not need to be built on a river bank.
What is the steam engine.
500
8 reasons to leave/ not come to the city
What is fire, disease, sewage, trash, slums, water systems, overcrowding, nativists.
500
Laws that controlled every aspect of a slave's life.
What are slave codes
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