Inventions
Created Cotten gin?
Who is Eli Whitney
Worked about 11 hours a day?
Who are the factory workers
Would measure their wealth with how many slaves they had?
What are PLantation owners
A smooth rythem to match the work on the plantation?
What is a work song
Religious leader who lead a violent revolt in south hampton virgina and killed 55 whites?
Who is Nat Turner
Created Steam Powered Locomotive in America?
Who is Peter Cooper
Fast moving parts in the machines of factories.
What are belts
Helped transfer many slaves through the underground railroad?
Who is Hariet Tubman
African songs and rhythms were often used to communicate?
What is a feild holler
Two trains slammed head-on into each other an estimated 60 people were killed?
The Great Train Wreck of 1856
Created the Mcormicks Reaper?
Who is Cyrus Mcormick
Worked six days a week and 12 hours a day?
Who are children
A series of safe houses for slaves to escape to the North?
What is the Underground railroad.
African American religious folk songs?
What are spirituals
Was carrying a full load of passengers and a large amount of gold when it steamed into a hurricane and hundreds of people drowned?
What is the SS Central America
Used electric signals to send messages?
What is the telegraph
Was very cold in the winter without heat?
What are factories
A resault in a slave trying to run away and getting cought?
What is getting whipped
Had Weddings and children on a plantation?
What are enslaved African Americans
formed a new political party called the know - nothing party.They believe in stricter citizenship laws and were famous for answering most questions with the statement “I know nothing”
From New York to Great Britain took about 14 days instead of 28?
What is the Clipper Ship
A refusal to work untill given better working conditions?
What are Strikes
A small farmer who has around 200 acres with little to no slaves?
Who are yeomen
Took care of the children even if the mother and father were sold off?
Close friends or other relitives
Suffered Injury from fast moving belts in the factories.
Who are children and men