The South
This cash crop became the backbone of the Southern economy
What is cotton?
Working slowly or breaking tools is an example of this type of resistance
What is passive resistance?
This inventor introduced interchangeable parts to American manufacturing
Who is Eli Whitney?
Irish and German immigrants often worked building these transportation systems
What are Canals and Railroads?
This religious movement emphasized personal faith and moral improvement
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This invention made cotton production faster and more profitable
What is the cotton gin?
Running away or revolting against slaveholders is known as this type of resistance
What is overt resistance?
This industry was the first to industrialize the U.S.
What is the textile industry?
This federally funded road connected Maryland to Illinois
What is the National Road?
This 1848 meeting launched the women's rights movement
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A former enslaved person who used speeched and writings to fight slavery
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1831 rebellion increased fear among slaveholders and led to stricter slave laws
What is the Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This man built the first successful American textile mill
Who was Samuel Slater?
This man-made innovation connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Erie Canal?
Germans often left Europe because of political unrest and this type of persecution
What is religious persecution?
This city grew into a major cotton-shipping and slave-trading center along the Mississippi River
What is Memphis?
This woman connected women's rights with racial inequality in powerful speeches
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This system used young women workers and company housing in factory towns
What is the Lowell System?
Powered by coal, this innovation allowed upstream travel
What are steamboats/ steam engines?
This Tennessee abolitionist published the Emancipator
Wealth and political power in the South were mainly held by this group
Who are plantation owners?
She led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Workers formed trade unions to improve this (2/3)
What are wages, hours, or conditions?
Industrial jobs caused people to move cities, leading to this trend in the North
What is urbanization?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?