Vocab 1
Laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people.
Slave Codes
A device that used electric signals to send messages
Telegraph
A plantation manager.
Overseer
What device used electric signals to send messages?
Telegraph.
Early trains were first pulled by what?
Horses pulled early trained.
Unfair treatment.
Discrimination
An unfair opinion not based on facts
Prejudice
Why was the benefit of the clipper ships?
Clipper ships got their name because they “clipped” time from long journeys. They could sail 300 miles per day.
What form of communication used an arrangement of short signals and long signals - dots and dashes?
Morse Code.
What were conditions like in factories around 1840?
Working conditions worsened over time. Employees worked long hours. This caused fatigue and accidents were more likely to happen.
A new development or invention
Innovation
A person opposed to immigration.
Nativist
In 1808 what did Congress ban?
Congress banned the importation of enslaved people.
What was the third phase of industrialization?
Workers used machines to complete tasks. For example, machines called looms wove cloth using the power of flowing water.
What did the southern economy rely on?
Agriculture and slavery.
A farmer who owns a small farm.
Yeomen
An african american religious folk song.
Spiritual
A measure of how much a person can produce with a given amount of time and effort.
Productivity
Where would a runaway receive aid?
The underground railroad.
How did workers try to get better working conditions?
Workers formed trade unions or groups of workers with the same trade, or skill. By working together they had more power. They also staged a series of strikes.
A community based on a vision of the perfect society.
Utopia
The right to vote.
Suffrage
What year did women get the right to vote?
1920
How were African American treated in the North?
Slavery in the north largely disappeared by the 1830s. African Americans still faced racial prejudice and discrimination in the north.
Between 1840 and 1860 what happened to immigration? Where did the greatest number of immigrants come from?
Immigration largely increased with most immigrants coming from Ireland.