The system that divided work into small, simple tasks during early industrialization.
What is the division of labor?
This is how you could explain working conditions in factories.
What are long hours, low pay, and dangerous conditions?
The main crop that dominated the Southern economy.
What is cotton?
The goal of abolitionists.
What is to end slavery?
The term meaning the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
The invention that allowed faster long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
Groups formed by workers to demand better wages and safer conditions.
What are labor unions?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The abolitionist who called for immediate emancipation and published a newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The 1848 event that launched the women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The inventor of Morse code.
Who is Samuel Morse?
The two main reasons cities in the North grew rapidly.
What are factories and immigration?
This is what happened to slavery as cotton production increased.
What is it expanded?
The escaped enslaved person who became a famous writer and speaker
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The document that argued women deserved equal rights.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The phase of industrialization that used machines to mass produce goods.
What is the third phase of industrialization?
The two major immigrant groups that came to America in large numbers.
Who are the Irish and Germans?
This is the main economic focus of the South.
What is agriculture?
The leader who helped enslaved people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The two leaders who fought for women’s suffrage.
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
John Deere’s invention that made farming easier by breaking tough soil.
What is the steel plow?
The belief that opposed immigrants and favored native-born Americans.
What is nativism?
These are the three main social groups in Southern society.
What are planters, yeoman farmers, and poor farmers?
The organization that wanted free African Americans to settle in Liberia.
What is the American Colonization Society?
One woman who helped improve education opportunities for women.
Who is Emma Willard or Mary Lyon?