Vocab
A person who enters the country in order to settle
Immigrant
a crop sold for money
cash crop
Who started the first textile mill in America
Samual Slater
What did trade unions demand ?
to set up or establish
(Mrs Mance's favorite thing to do ) *hint
organize
laws that controlled the lives of enslaved people
Slave Codes
a person who wanted to end slavery
Abolitionist
created Cottin Gin
Eli Whitney
South's economy
Agriculture
a policy that denies equal rights to certain groups of people
discrimination
movement of population from farms to cities
Urbanization
association of workers in a specific trade
Trade union
helped rescue enslaved people: known as "Black Moses'
Harriet Tubman
North's economy
Industries
Refusal to obey using non-violent means
Civil Disobedience
a change from manual production to machines
Industrial Revolution
refusal by workers to do their job
Strike
Black abolitionist who escaped slavery and was the leader of the abolitionist movement
Fredrick Douglass
Against Alcohol
Temperance Movement
Name 1 factor that brought rapid urbanization
interchangeable parts
machines
etc.
a name for wealthy planters who made their money from cotton that controlled government policies
Cottonocracy
a period of rapid growth
boom
a leader in the women's rights movement- formed the Women's National Suffrage Association
Susan B Anthony
Name 2 reasons why Cotton was "King" in the south
1. Increase demand from Britain
2. Cotton gin
3. Availability of slaves to work in the cotton industry
How did Americans respond to increased Immigration
Know-nothing party and discrimination