Technology
Swift sailng trade vessel of the mid-1800's
What is a clipper ship?
1/3 of the population of the south.
Who are enslaved people?
Policy that denies people equal rights.
What is discrimination?
By 1827, an English visitor compained that all southerners were interested in was one thing.
What is cotton?
What is a telegraph?
Word to describe the small population of weatlhy population of plantation owners.
What is the 'Cottonocracy'?
Organizations formed to promote shorter hours, higher wages, and better working conditions.
What are trade unions?
At first, southerners could not keep up with the demand for cotton, but this inventioned changed that.
What is the cotton gin?
Person who invented the sewing machine.
Who is Elias Howe?
As the Cotton Kingdom spread, so did this.
What is slavery?
People who wanted to preserve the country for native-born, white citizens.
Who are nativists?
Cotton planters began to move west by the 1850's because of this.
What is soil 'wearing out'?
Invention that reduced the amount of labor needed to harvest crops.
What is a reaper?
Laws that kept slaves from running away or rebelling.
What are slave codes?
Women faced special problems.
What is getting paid less than men?
Rich southern planters invested their money in _________ rather than factories.
What are slaves?
1st steam powered railroad engine.
What is the Rainbow?
Most southern whites were ___________, who owned their land and perhaps one or two slaves.
Who are small farmers?
By the early 1800's, all Northern states had __________ slavery.
What is outlawed?
The task that the cotton gin did.
What is cleaning cotton?