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100
She was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This was the nickname for the American Party.
What is the Know-Nothings?
100
This is the idea that native-born Americans were favored over foreign-born Americans.
What is Nativism?
100
Most German immigrants came to the United States in the mid-1800s for this reason.
What is economic opportunity?
100
These people lived and worked on plantations and farms.
Who are enslaved African Americans?
200
He developed a mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
200
This group of people made up the majority of southern white society.
What is the yeoman farmers?
200
Pre-Civil War
What is Antebellum?
200
Most of immigrants from this country settled in American city slums in the mid-1880s.
What is Ireland?
200
This caused a decrease in the cost of manufactured products.
What is the Market Revolution?
300
He designed and constructed a power loom to produce cotton textiles.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
300
This new social class developed in the early 1800s in northern society.
What is the middle class?
300
This is the name given to the South after the development of the cotton gin and the rise of plantation-based agriculture.
What is the Cotton Kingdom?
300
Most German immigrants belonged to this religious group.
What is Protestant?
300
This is the percentage of southern whites who owned slaves before the Civil War.
What is 25%?
400
He led a violent slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
An important belief of this group was that they were God's chosen people.
What are slaves?
400
This occurred faster in the North than in the South.
What is industrialization?
400
Immigrants from this country tended to have skilled occupations.
What is Germany?
400
He was a free African American carpenter who planned a massive slave uprising in the Charleston area.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
500
She was a textile mill worker who urged her co-workers to form a union.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?
500
These people lived primarily on corn and pork.
Who are white southerners?
500
This is the percentage of factory workers in New England in 1832 that were children.
What is 40%?