industry
VOCAB: pieces that can be used in other items
interchangeable parts
VOCAB: the right to vote
suffrage
VOCAB: secret network of men and women helping free slaves
underground railroad
VOCAB: man made waterway
canal
VOCAB: person running for political office
candidate
VOCAB: making large amounts in a short time
Mass production
VOCAB: name given to the times during the 1800s where technology and economy advanced quickly
Industrial revolution
VOCAB: person fighting to end slavery
abolitionist
VOCAB: small, dirty apartment buildings
tenements
VOCAB: name for the one managing fields for the plantation owner
Overseer
Name of the machine that spun threads and made yarn
spinning wheel
VOCAB: reform to ban alcohol
temperance
She was known as the "black Moses"
Harriet Tubman
Name for the long path Native Americans were forced to walk by the Colonists taking their land
Trail of Tears
Most important crop in the south
Cotton
The industrial revolution started during this century
1700s
Dorothea Dix moved to reform institution for a certain type of people:
The mentally ill
Two main places slaves escaped to in the Underground Railroad
Mexico, Canada, also accept North America, free states
A potato famine in this place led thousands of immigrants to come to America and work in the factories
Ireland
The original name for Chicago before it became the railroad center of the midwest
Mudtown
This machine cleaned the cotton and prepared it for processing (turning into thread). It also started the growth of industry
cotton gin
The name of the woman who said "Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns... and aren't I a woman?"
Sojourner Truth
Safe houses where slaves on the run could hide were sometimes called:
the biggest canal
Erie Canal
Horace Mann