lesson 1
This allowed workers to make clothing in mass quantities.
Sewing machine
Person opposed to immigration
Nativist
A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort
Productivity
Yeoman
a farmer who owns a small farm
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
The Know-Nothing party was one of the first political parties in America- which first started as a secret Organization.
This area's factories made at least 2/3 of the country's manufactured goods
Northeast
Extreme food shortage
Famine
What is the trade of enslaved people among states of the United States?
Domestic Slave Trade
Slave Codes
laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
Its main beliefs?
They were extremely prejudice towards the Irish Immigrants living in America, and did not believe that they should participate
The first railroads in the U.S. ran along short stretches of track that connected these two things.
mines and rivers
A work stoppage by employees
Strike
What three crops did South grow during colonial times?
Rice, Indigo, Tobacco
Underground Railroad
a system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
Business-wise?
They believed that all business should be conducted in English only. The process of getting a US citizenship took 25 years.
____ pulled early trains.
Horses
A group of workers within the same trade/skill
Trade Unions
What became the main crop in the South due to European demand?
cotton
an African American religious folk song
Spirituals
How did they come up with the know nothing party
It was an outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti-Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during the 1840s.
The first steam-powered passenger locomotive began running in ___.
Britain
Describe the working conditions of a factory worker in the 1800's
Long days, fatigue, on job accidents, and child labor for factories
What invention quickly and easily removed seeds from cotton fibers?
Cotton Gin
Literacy
the ability to read and write
who founded the know-nothing party?
Lewis Charles Levin