American Inventors
I developed a system for sending messages instantly across electrical wires.
Samuel Morse
What was the economy based on ?
Industries and factories
What was the economy based on?
Agriculture/ cotton farms & plantations
Which section of the country had a large number of Irish & German immigrants?
North
Wanted to abolish slavery.
Abolitionists
I developed a mechanical reaper, greatly increasing the number of acres of crops a farmer could harvest.
Cyrus McCormick
Where did the people mostly live?
cities
Where did most people live?
The country / farms
The majority of white people in this area were yeomen farmers who owned small farms and grew crops to sell and trade locally.
South
Were willing to make a compromise regarding slave vs free states.
Northern Democrats
I invented the cotton gin which transformed the economy of the South.
Eli Whitney
Two types of transportation that opened up the Midwest to settlement.
railroads & steamboats
Two inventors that had the most immediate & broadest impact on agriculture.
Cyrus McCormick & John Deere
These people need written permission to leave plantations, could be separated from their families if sold to another plantation, and were prohibited from gathering in large groups? Who were they and which part of the country?
African American Slaves in the south.
Were for slavery.
Southern Democrats
I called for equal pay for women and began one of the country's first temperance associations called the Daughters of Temperance.
Susan B. Anthony
How were children affected by industrialization in the North?
Some southerners thought that they needed this in order to compete with the North.
Industrial growth
This event occurred when groups formed to advocate for the prohibition of alcohol, many Americans vowed to live more moral & spiritual lives, and education opportunities increased for women.
Second Great Awakening
Republicans
These inventors founded 'Freedom's Journal' in 1827 as the first American Newspaper.
Samuel Cornish & John Russwurm
Racism in the North even when slavery disappeared.
Where did the cotton production increase rapidly to after the invention of the cotton gin?
South
In the 1800s these people most likely had job opportunities as school teachers and factory workers.
women
Two territories that were impacted by the slave/ free debate and set the people in chaos as other states came to fight.
Nebraska Kansas