The Industrial North
Ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped” time from long journey
Clipper ship
The average workday was?
11.4 hours
The state formed by the Upper South are?
Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
Most white people in the South were?
Yeoman
How many people did Nat Turner Kill?
More than 55 people.
Peter Cooper designed and built the first American steam-powered locomotive
The Tom Thumb
Children in factories often worked?
Six days a week and 12 hours or more a day.
The state formed the Deep South are?
Georgia and South Carolina, as well as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
They rented land from property owners.
Tenant Farmers
Was Nat Turner born?
On the Virginia plantation of Benjamin Turner
A device that used electric signals to send messages
Telegraph
Group of workers with the same trade, or skill
Trade union
Eli Whitney invented the?
The cotton gin
Enslaved people set up a network of relatives and friends known as?
Close-knit extended families
What made it illegal to teach enslaved people, according to Congress?
Literacy (Read and Writing)
A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
Morse code
A work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer.
Strike
The cotton gin helped workers process ____ more cotton each day than they could by hand.
50 TIME MORE
How most enslaved people preserve African customs.
They passed traditional African folk stories on to their children.
How many blacks who were utterly unrelated to the rebellion were killed by whites
200
Cyrus McCormick was the genius behind the invention of the?
Mechanical reaper
Person opposed to immigration
Nativist
In general, farmers and the few manufacturers of the South relied on?
Natural waterways to transport their goods
The ten largest cities in the South were either seaports or river ports. Cities where the region's few railroads crossed paths also began to grow, like?
Chattanooga, Montgomery, and Atlanta
The lawyer who wrote the Confession of Nat Turner.
Thomas R. Gray