Lesson 1
The tracks used to transport goods with steam powered locomotives across the north
What are railroads?
The people who told people they knew nothing
What is the "Know Nothing Party"?
The most popular crop in the south
What is cotton?
The heart of the southern economy
What are enslaved people?
Unfair treatment
The machine that was used to communicate with Morse code
What is the telegraph?
The hours in factories in the 1800s
What is 11.4 hours long?
Made to pick seeds from cotton
What is the cotton gin?
The person who watched all of the slaves as they worked
Who is the overseer?
A new development or invention
The event that involved two trains smashing in to each other
What is the great train wreck of 1856?
The places majorly built and established due to factories and industrialization
What are cities?
The things used for transportation in the south
What are natural waterways?
Harsh, brutal life with 0 freedom and separation from families
What was the life of enslaved people?
A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
What was the underground railroad?
The creator of the McCormick's reaper
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
The people who faced prejudice, discrimination, and harsh conditions
Who were African Americans in the north?
Were uncommon and didn't develop often in the south but did in the north
What is southern industry?
Poor white farmers who usually owned 50-200 acres of land
What are Yeomen?
A work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer
What is a strike?
The first phase of industrialization
What was the process of divided employers jobs into smaller steps?
Founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization
Who is Sarah G. Bagley
Who is William Gregg?
Leader of the slave rebellion that killed 55 people in Virginia
Who is Nat Turner?
The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States
What is domestic slave trade?