Vocabulary
A person who supervises a large operation or its workers
Overseer
Samuel Morse
A machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers
Cotton gin
Famine caused people from which country to immigrate to the United States?
Ireland
To put pressure on employers, workers staged what?
Strikes
A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops
Tenant Farmer
Who invented the Steel-tipped plow?
John Deere
What made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write?
Slave codes
A shortage of what would have devastating consequences for the Sough during the Civil War?
Railroads
Arriving between 1820 and 1860, the second largest group of immigrants was from where?
Germany
An organization of workers with the same trade or skill
Trade Union
Who led a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion against their slaveholders in 1831?
Nat Turner
Members of the Know-Nothing party
Nativists
What group of southerners measured their wealth party by the number of enslaved people they controlled?
Plantation Owners
What transformed the stagnant economy of the South into a prosperous, robust economy?
Cotton
A fast sailing ship with slender lines, tall masts, and large square sails
Clipper ship
Who took over the Tredegar Iron Works company?
Joseph Reid Anderson
Who opened a textile factory in Charleston, SC?
William Gregg
What took over the task of weaving?
Power-Driven Looms
The North’s main income
Industry
Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people
Yeoman
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe
Who built the first United States Locomotive?
Peter Cooper
Most factory workers lived in what?
Slums
Who watched over the enslaved household workers and tended to them when they became ill?
Plantation wife