The Industrial Revolution
The main reason young women were drawn to working in mills
What was they wanted greater economic freedom.
The main reason skilled workers have more success at forming unions than other workers.
What was that they were harder to replace?
One result of the invention of the cotton gin.
What was an increase in the demand for slave labor.?
The earliest organized opposition to slavery was based on this
What was religious beliefs?
The main cause of the increase in the number and the size of cities in the United States
What was the spread of factories?
Steam power, the growth of railroads, a free-market economy, and mass production led to a decrease in this.
What was the costs of goods.
The reason the South not develop a more robust manufacturing base.
What was southern investors were more interested in land than industry?
The main reason that there were 20 times as many enslaved African Americans in the South as in the North by 1800.
What was the southern economy depended heavily on slave labor?
This brought workers and machinery together.
What was the factory system?
This is how immigration connected to economic growth.
What was by immigrants both coming in response to and contributing to economic growth?
How most southern whites were connected to the plantation system.
Why did most have little direct connection because they owned small farms?
How Frederick Douglass defied the laws on slavery.
What was he learned to read?
This encouraged the spread of the factory system.
What was the development of interchangeable parts?
When the first railroads were built, this problem often occurred in transferring from one railroad line to another one.
What was that goods had to be unloaded and reloaded?
The reason most free African Americans in the South live in Maryland and Delaware
What was because slavery was decreasing in those states?
The Underground Railroad was an example of this.
What was civil disobedience?
How Americans found ideas for new technology
What was by looking to modern science.
In the North, immigrants and African Americans had this in common
What was facing widespread discrimination?
This protected slaves from the worst forms of abuse
What was because slaves were considered valuable property?
(There were no real protections)
The main reason many business owners in the North opposed abolition.
What was they depended on a steady supply of cotton from the South?