lesson 1
What was the first step in industrialization?
Employers divided jobs into smaller steps
What statement did the new political party (the know nothing party) most of the time answer questions with?
I know nothing.
What was the Souths economy almost entirely based on?
Agriculture
What is a person called that owns a small farm only 50-200 acres of land?
A Yeoman.
What is the definition of legal?
Permitted by the law.
Which sailing technology improved transportation?
The Clipper Ship.
What was the average work day for people in the mid 1800's?
11.4 hours.
What was the main way to transport good in the South?
Natural waterways.
Why did the plantation owner usually break up slave families?
So they wouldn't start a rebellion.
What is the definition of literacy?
The ability to read and write.
What part of the U.S was benefited by the railroad system?
The Northeast and Midwest.
How much less were women paid than men?
Half as much as the men were paid.
What is one reason why the South's industry developed more slowly than in the North?
Growing cotton lead to great profits.
What was used to control slaves?
Slave codes.
What is the definition of spiritual?
An African American folk song.
What device was used to send messages through wires?
The telegraph.
What are the urban cities that began to develop in between 1820 and 1840?
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh.
How were the railroads in the South compared to the North.
The South's railroads were short and local.
Who lead the slave revolt and killed 55 whites in Virginia.
Nat Turner
what is the definition of slave code?
A set of laws in southern states that controlled enslaved people.
What machine allowed farmers to cut the prairie sod allowing them to farm it?
The steel tipped plow created by john Deere.
What are the two main countries that immigrants came from between 1840 and 1860?
Ireland, Germany
What invention in the south lead to the increase of the domestic slave trade?
The cotton gin.
What two people stated the underground railroad system?
Harriet Tubman, and Fredrick Douglas.
What is the Underground railroad.
A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped.