Southern Economy and Society
The Southern economy was mostly based on this type of farming system.
What is an agrarian economy?
Enslaved people were considered this, meaning they were treated as property.
What is chattel?
This economic shift moved production from hand tools to machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These describe the reasons people leave their home countries and come to the U.S.
What are push-pull factors?
This waterway connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
This invention made cotton production much faster and increased the demand for slave labor.
What is the cotton gin?
Enslaved people often resisted in small ways, such as slowing down work or doing this to tools.
What is breaking tools, pretended not to understand, or faked illness?
He developed the idea of interchangeable parts for mass production.
Who is Eli Whitney?
A major pull factor for immigrants to the U.S. in the 1800s was this.
What is job opportunity?
These boats could move upriver and changed trade in the early 1800s.
What are steamboats?
This Tennessee city became a major center for the cotton and slave trade.
What is Memphis?
This movement aimed to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolition?
This system hired young women to work in textile mills with housing provided.
What is the Lowell System?
These immigrants built many railroads and worked in factories during the 1800s.
Who are Irish and German immigrants?
This road was the first federally funded highway.
What is the National Road?
This term describes the roles of rich plantation owners, poor farmers, and enslaved people in the South.
What are the characteristics of southern society?
This rebellion was one of the most famous uprisings by enslaved people in U.S. history.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
He memorized British factory designs and brought them to the U.S.
Who is Samuel Slater?
Immigration in the 1800s led to rapid growth of these areas.
What are cities?
This form of land transportation expanded rapidly and helped move goods faster.
What are railroads?
He led a violent rebellion in 1831 that frightened slaveholders across the South.
Who is Nat Turner?
Enslaved people used this type of music to communicate and express hope.
What are spirituals?
These organizations formed by workers aimed to improve wages and working conditions.
What are trade unions?
These tensions rose between immigrants and native-born Americans over jobs and culture.
What is nativism?
New machines, canals, and roads during this era had this overall effect.
What is increased economic growth or improved transportation and communication?