Vocab
Unfair treatment of a group?
Discrimination
These ships had sleek hulls and tall sails?
Clipper Ships
An unfair opinion not based on facts?
Predjudice
The South was divided in two parts, what were they?
Upper and Deep South
Farmers that did not have enslaved workers?
Yeomen
An extreme shortage of food?
Famine
Apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages?
Telegraph
Organizations of workers with the same trade or skills?
Trade unions
What was a machine that could remove the seeds from cotton?
Cotton Gin
Laws in the south that controlled enslaved people?
Slave codes
What is Capital?
Money that is invested in business
What are three inventions in agriculture changed how we farmed?
Steel tipped plow
Reaper
Thresher
What is a Strike?
Refusal to work in order to put pressure on employers
Who invented the cotton gin?
Led a rebellion that killed 55 whites?
Nat Turner
What is an Overseer?
Plantation Manager.
This company was created to help speed the transmission of news using the telegraph?
American Press
What did the Know nothing party want to accomplish?
Stricter Citizen laws
Longer waiting time to be a citizen
Ban foreign born from holding office
By 1860 what fraction of the total railways were located in the south?
1/3
The underground railroad
Offered aid to enslaved people who attempted to escape. Network of safe houses!
What are Innovations?
New ideas or methods in industry or technology.
Name three inventors from this section and what they invented?
Elias Howe: Sewing Machine
Robert Fulton: Steamboat
Peter Cooper: Steam Locomotive
Samuel Morse: Telegraph
Cyrus McCormick: Mechanical reaper
Name 3 African Americans who rose to prominence in the business world?
Henry Boyd
Samuel Cornish
John Russwurm
Marcon Allen
Name the 6 stated that were included in the deep south?
1. Georgia
2.South Carolina
3. Alabama
4.Mississippi
5. Louisiana
6. Texas
Name 4 things slaved did to resist slavery?
1. Work slow
2. Fake Illness
3. Burn Plantation buildings
4. Breaking tools