Samuel F.B. Morse patented this, which allowed for faster communication by transmitting messages over wire.
What was the telegraph?
100
The southern product that was in demand in the North because of an increase in textile mills.
What was cotton?
100
Even though African Americans in the North were free, they still faced this.
What is discrimination?
100
The first of THESE were formed by artisans (skilled workers of a specific craft) in order to gain worker rights.
What are trade unions?
100
DAILY DOUBLE: A term given to people who filled in for striking union members.
What are scabs?
200
Began to replace water powered factories in the 1840s.
What were steam powered factories?
200
The other agricultural product that the South led the nation in producing BESIDES cotton.
What was livestock?
200
Between 1850 and 1860 many German immigrants came to the United States to escape this.
What is political oppression?
200
Workers (INCLUDING FEMALE WORKERS) would often organize THESE in order to try and get higher wages, less hours, and better working conditions.
What are strikes?
200
This man's revolt, which killed 57 whites, led to an increased fear of slave revolts in the South.
Who was Nat Turner?
300
Inventor of a lightweight steel plow that allowed farmers to used a horse to plow a field rather than a slow moving ox.
Who was John Deere?
300
The invention of this machine by what man made growing cotton more profitable because it allowed slaves to clean cotton more quickly. (2 parts)
What was the cotton gin by Eli Whitney?
300
A severe FAMINE caused 1.5 million people to leave this country in the mid-1800's.
Where was Ireland?
300
The term for the group of Americans who did not think highly of immigrants coming to the U.S. and working in the cities in factories.
Who were the NATIVISTS?
300
Enslaved Americans in the South, made up almost 1/? of the population there.
What is 1/3rd?
400
Inventor of the mechanical reaper.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
400
Clipper ships, known for their unrivaled WHAT, helped boost the American Economy because they increased trade.
What is speed?
400
The MAJORITY of SOUTHERN WHITES were known as what. (Think of the social ladder of southern society)
What are small farmers or "plain folk"?
400
How factories managers felt about their workers.
What are as machines?
400
Two inventions of the early 1800's that help northern industry grow, and why?
What are:(answers could include) steam engine, mechanical reaper, locomotive, sewing machine, telegraph?
500
African American who invented a machine that revolutionized the way sugar was made.
Who was Norbert Rillieux?
500
The growth of THESE caused a decline in farming in the New England States because New England farmers could not compete with food shipped east because of them.
What are railroads?
500
Slave codes prevented SLAVES from doing what (LIST THREE).
What were MEETING IN LARGE GROUPS, LEARNING TO READ OR WRITE, OR OWNING WEAPONS.
500
The government sided with this group in the early years of organized unions making it harder for unions to negotiate on their terms.
What are business owners?
500
The free African American that was executed with 35 others for planning a slave revolt.