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Sends messages over distances electronically.
What is a telegraph?
Religious songs blending bible themes of slavery.
Made travel and trade over water faster.
What are steamboats?
This brought immigrants from Ireland to the U.S. during the 1800s.
What is the potato famine?
He created first practical steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Denial of equal rights.
What is discrimination?
Widespread starvation.
What is a famine?
What are Clipper ships?
What is slavery?
He created first mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
Machine to remove seeds from cotton.
What is a cotton gin?
Dug channels filled with water.
What are canals?
Led to the creation of factories and the Industrial Revolution.
What are steam engines?
These people believed that America should be preserved for white, American-born Protestants.
Who are the Nativists?
He created the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Identical pieces that can be assembled quickly.
What are interchangeable parts?
Rapid production of many identical items.
Helped connect good, raw materials, and markets.
What are railroads?
Henry Clay was a supporter of this?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He brought textile factories to America.
What are slave codes?
Moving to cities from rural areas.
What is urbanization?
Increased the use of unskilled, cheap labor.
What are interchangeable parts?
These are the three things that the Missouri Compromise decided.
What is 1.) Maine enters as a free state; Missouri a slave state, 2.) No slavery in Louisiana territory north of the Mississippi southern border, and 3.) Escaped slaves can be pursued into "free" territory.
He led a slave revolt in 1831 that killed 60 whites.
Who is Nat Turner?