Southern Life and Slavery
This group depended heavily on enslaved labor for economic success.
Who are plantation owners?
Unlike the Irish, Germans mostly settled here.
What are Midwestern states like Ohio and Wisconsin?
This invention sped up news and business communication.
What is the telegraph?
These mountains had the most U.S. coal mines.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This movement wanted schools for everyone.
What is the Common-School Movement?
Enslaved people often worked from this time until this time.
What is sunrise to sunset?
This reformer preached during the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
Factory jobs were often dangerous because of this.
What are locked exits and poor safety?
telegraph messages traveled over these.
What are electrical wires?
Strikes impacted business by doing this.
What is stopping production?
This nickname was given to Harriet Tubman.
What is Moses?
Nativists worried immigrants would do this.
What is take jobs and lower wages?
These fight for workers’ rights?
What are Labor Unions?
By 1860, this many miles of railroad existed.
What is 30,000 miles?
This Massachusetts reformer led the Common School Movement to provide free public education.
Who is Horace Mann?
This large reward was offered for Harriet Tubman’s capture.
What is $40,000?
She worked to reform prisons and mental hospitals.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This energy source was used to power factories, eliminating the need to be located by rivers.
What is steam power?
This helped connect small towns to trade.
What is the railroad?
Employers used this threat to keep workers silent.
What is the threat of firing them?
These events were devastating for enslaved families, often leading to separation.
What are slave auctions?
Workers feared speaking out because they could be ____.
What is fired for any reason?
This man created the American Federation of Labor and organized cigar workers to go on strike.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This was a key reason railroads were hard to build.
What is rugged terrain, or lack of man power to build?
Employers used this threat to keep workers silent.
What is the threat of firing them?