North
A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production:
Industrial Revolution
What was the primary Southern FOOD crop?
Corn
Who created the idea of interchangeable parts:
Eli Whitney
Different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
Morse Code
Parts of a machine that are identical.
Interchangeable parts
What was it called when workers would refuse to work until their demands were met
Strikes
Stories with a moral, also were part of this oral tradition.
Folktales
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
Mass Production
Invented by John Deere that helped break up the thick soil
Steel Plow
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F.B. Morse
The first important breakthrough of the Industrial Revoltion was seen in the production of:
Textiles
The area of high cotton production (ranging from Virgina, North Carolina, and Texas) was known as:
The Cotton Belt
Invented the first sewing machine
Elias Howe
Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
Trade Unions
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, most factories moved from using water-power to:
Steam-Power
What country did the United States often compete with in the manufacturing industry?
Britain
After the American Revolution, what three southern crops fell in price?
Indigo, tobacco, rice
Developed the mechanical reaper which quickly cut down wheat
Cyrus McCormick
Device that could send information over wires across great distances.
Telegraph
This group included mostly white southerners who owned small farms with little to no slaves.
Yeomen
In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, wood was the main energy source for locomotives and trains. What source was replaced wood?
Coal
Who led the famous rebellion of slaves in Virigina in 1831?
Nat Turner
This man chose a system based on water-powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms.
Francis Cabot Lowell
Folk songs that mixed African and European music and were often religious in nature
What was deemed the hardest part of slavery, in which families would be torn apart and placed in different slaveholder’s possession?
Slave Trade