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American Inventors
Life in the North
Life in the South
North v South
People in the Antebellum Period
100

I developed a system for sending messages instantly across electrical wires.

Samuel Morse

100

What was the economy based on ?

Industries and factories

100

What was the economy based on?

Agriculture/ cotton farms & plantations

100

Which section of the country had a large number of Irish & German immigrants?

North

100

Wanted to abolish slavery.

Abolitionists

200

I developed a mechanical reaper, greatly increasing the number of acres of crops a farmer could harvest.

Cyrus McCormick

200

Where did the people mostly live?

cities

200

Where did most people live?

The country / farms

200

The majority of white people in this area were yeomen farmers who owned small farms and grew crops to sell and trade locally.

South

200

Were willing to make a compromise regarding slave vs free states.

Northern Democrats

300

I invented the cotton gin which transformed the economy of the South.

Eli Whitney

300

Two types of transportation that opened up the Midwest to settlement.

railroads & steamboats

300

Two inventors that had the most immediate & broadest impact on agriculture.

Cyrus McCormick & John Deere

300

These people need written permission to leave plantations, could be separated from their families if sold to another plantation, and were prohibited from gathering in large groups?  Who were they and which part of the country?

African American Slaves in the south.

300

Were for slavery.

Southern Democrats

400

I called for equal pay for women and began one of the country's first temperance associations called the Daughters of Temperance.

Susan B. Anthony

400

How were children affected by industrialization in the North?

Worked long hours in factories instead of going to school.
400

Some southerners thought that they needed this in order to compete with the North.

Industrial growth

400

This event occurred when groups formed to advocate for the prohibition of alcohol, many Americans vowed to live more moral & spiritual lives, and education opportunities increased for women.

Second Great Awakening

400
A new political party formed against slavery.

Republicans

500

These inventors founded 'Freedom's Journal' in 1827 as the first American Newspaper.

Samuel Cornish & John Russwurm

500
What caused African Americans to live in poverty, discriminated against where they could live, and prevented from sending their children to public school?

Racism in the North even when slavery disappeared.

500

Where did the cotton production increase rapidly to after the invention of the cotton gin?

South

500

In the 1800s these people most likely had job opportunities as school teachers and factory workers.

women

500

Two territories that were impacted by the slave/ free debate and set the people in chaos as other states came to fight.

Nebraska Kansas