People who make this type of products in their factories find that they need quite a lot of cloth to make money.
What is textiles?
Despite slavery being in the South, approximately how many African Americans were actually living in the South freely by 1860?
What is around 250,000?
The idea of this made fixing parts in machinery much easier than what it was in the past.
What is interchangeable parts?
This crop was the major crop that was grown between the areas of South Carolina and Texas.
What is cotton?
This inventor came up with several inventions, including the idea for mass-producing guns and the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
Though it was thought to not have been something that could be read, the 1844 Democratic Convention proved this type of communication was fast and reliable.
What is the telegraph?
Joseph R. Anderson had one of the rare industries in the South when his business in Richmond, Virginia used this element.
What is iron?
Samuel Slater constructed housing, paid workers in store credit, and had children working in the factories in this known named system.
This was the primary food crop that was grown in the South. Hopefully Shoeless Joe Jackson came through this to play baseball down there as well.
What is corn?
This American inventor built the Tom Thumb, a small, steam-powered railroad locomotive that could reach up to 20 mph!
Who was Peter Cooper?
The period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel was known as this term.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
This area of Southern life was a lifeblood for families to see neighbors and connect through social functions.
What is the church?
Francis Cabot Lowell developed this system that that had young women working in his mills for 12 to 14 hours a day.
What was the Lowell system?
Around how many southerners owned slaves in the southern states?
What is around 1/3?
This Virginia slave planned to get freedom by killing slaveholders and their families after seeing a call from God in the form of a solar eclipse.
Who was Nat Turner?
Most all of the early and successful factories were built near these areas for power.
What is a stream?
What are folktales?
This group of people entered the workforce in the North, leading to lower wages and the Panic of 1837.
Who are immigrants?
The name of southern farmers that often worked side by side with any slaves that they may have owned.
What was a yeoman?
This inventor made fixing clothing that was torn easier for people to do with his improvement of the sewing machine.
In the court case of Gibbons v. Ogden, this shipper won the case, allowing federal government to have authority to regulate trade between the states.
Who was Thomas Gibbons?
This was a significant reason why southerners believed that slavery needed to stay for the protection of their African Americans.
What is they could not survive by themselves?
This invention led to industries in the North being able to move away from water that they needed in the past.
What is the steam engine?
This was the main thing that the cotton gin was able to do to speed up production of cotton in the south.
What was pull the seeds out of cotton?
This person was the first woman to hold a high-ranking position in America's labor movement and battled for workers success.
Who was Sarah G. Bagley?