Immigration
This term refers to the fear or hatred of foreigners and people from different cultures.
What is xenophobia?
This job action involves workers refusing to perform their duties until their demands are met.
What is a strike?
The primary motivation for most factory owners during this period.
What is profit?
In the 1820s cotton was given this name because of how profitable it was.
What is King Cotton
the process of slave owners telling non slaves owner that slaves are wild animals.
What is White Fear
By 1860, what fraction of the U.S. population had been born from a different country?
What is 1 out of every 8 people?
This derogatory term refers to a replacement worker who crosses the picket line during a strike.
What is a scab?
Many Southern slave owners believed that these workers were treated worse than their slaves
Who are factory workers?
This Yale college student was responsible for creating the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
People would Often Use this religious book in order to make slavery justified
What is The Bible
What was the largest period of immigration in United States history, with 4.2 million immigrants arriving?
What years did this occur between 1840 and 1860?
This group is hired by factory owners to break through picket lines and allow replacement workers to enter.
What are strike breakers?
Slave owners viewed slaves as this, making them more valuable than factory workers.
What is a valuable commodity?
the name given to the crops Tobacco,rice,indigo, and Cotton.
What is Cash Crops
During the 1840s the amount of slaves increased by this percentage.
What is 20%
What decade saw 600,000 immigrants come to the United States in search of a better life and work?
What is the 1830s?
This action involves blocking the entrance to a workplace to prevent replacement workers from entering.
What is picketing?
This economic principle explains why factory workers became less valuable as their numbers increased.
What is supply and demand?
The Process that made cotton so laborious and hard to pick
What is Deseeding
This Type of Slave Supervised the other slaves and often was not liked by the other slaves.
What are the Overseers
Immigrants were often subjected to these negative labor practices due to their vulnerable status.
What is exploitation and mistreatment?
This job action involves workers performing only the duties specified in their contract without giving extra effort.
What are contract hours?
As political discussions in the North shifted towards this, many Southerners feared for their way of life.
What is abolition?
The college Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin at.
What is Yale
This Person led a slave revolt in South Hampton Virginia
Nat Turner