The South
What was the southern economy based around?
Argriculture/farming
What was the northern economy based around?
Industry/manufacturing
Why did factory owners tend to hire Immigrant girls over American girls
Work for less money
Of all the developments in the 1800's, which was the most significant
The Railroad
machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
Cotton Gin
Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops
Plantation
a type of cloth or woven fabric
Textiles
This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil that year
Potato Famine
A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825
Erie Canal
The invention of the cotton gin did what to slavery in the south
Increased
"Lower south" or "cotton kingdom"; area where the majority of the country's cotton was produced; plagued w/ disease
Deep South
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
Industrial Revolution
Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around the mills
Lowell System
A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion using coal
Steam engine
laws meant to govern the slave system of labor; these laws made it impossible for an African American to live as a free person.
Slave Codes
Labor Slowdowns, Breaking Tools, Running Away, Underground Railroad, Songs as communication, "stupidness" to get out of working
Slave Resistance
A mill with machinery driven by water.
Water Powered Mills
He was a British mechanic that moved to America and in 1791 invented the first American machine for spinning cotton. He is known as "the Father of the Factory System" and he started the idea of child labor in America's factories.
Samuel Slater
Name the 4 developments made in America in the 1800's
National Roads, Steam boat, Canal, and railroads
a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
Underground Railroad
Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among white Southerners of further uprisings.
Nat Turners Revolt
young female workers who came to work in industrial corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Lowell Girls
What two countries did the most people migrate from to America
Ireland and Germany
What were the two names given to the first road to cross multiple states
National and Cumberland Road
Who's job was it to establish a protective tariff, and improve the country's transportation system
Henry Clay