Inventions
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
This system of labor was the foundation of the Southern economy.
What is slavery?
The average workday length in factories.
What was 11 hours?
Religious songs sung by enslaved people.
What are spirituals?
The three-phase process where work became specialized, centralized, and mechanized.
What is industrialization?
The inventor of the telegraph communication system.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Small farmers in the South who owned little land and few or no enslaved people.
Who are yeomen?
This group worked in factories because they could fit in small places.
Who are children?
The secret network that helped enslaved people escape.
What is the underground railroad?
This region produced two-thirds of the nation's manufactured goods.
What is the Northeast?
The inventor of the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
These large farms focused on cash crops like cotton and used enslaved labor.
What are plantations?
Workers formed these groups to demand better wages and conditions.
What are trade unions?
Rebellion leader who led a slave revolt in Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner?
This transportation system connected cities and helped goods moved faster.
What are railroads?
The inventor of the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Laws that controlled enslaved people and restricted their rights.
What are slave codes?
A refusal to work in order to pressure employers for change.
What is a strike?
He was the first African American licensed lawyer in the U.S.
Who is Macon B. Allen.
The use of machines to produce goods quickly and in large quantities.
What is mass production?
The inventor of the sewing machine.
Who is Elias Howe?
The majority of the whites in the south were this.
What is poor?
This system which led to a product being made all in one building.
What is the factory system?
This newspaper was the first African American newspaper.
What is the Freedom's Journal?
This canal opened in 1825 and helped connect the Midwest to the East.
What is the Erie Canal?