Immigration
Many people from all walks of life decided to move West to do this.
What is getting a fresh start?
What is expanding land?
This invention strained the tensions between slaves and plantation owners in 1794.
What was the cotton gin?
This region had several classes including the working, middle, and elite.
What is the Northeast?
15 of these immigrants settled in Michigan and named their settlement Frankenmuth.
Who are Germans?
Despite what most think, this region had many racist policies and unequality.
What is the Northeast?
This region didn't have classes until after the Civil War.
What is the Western Frontier?
This group of immigrants made up the largest portion of immigrants until 1848.
Who are the Irish?
Many working class Americans didn't want this to happen because they were afraid of job competition.
What is abolition?
This class in the Northeast often owned small factories or stores and could afford luxuries.
What is the middle class?
This area from Pennsylvania to Oregon was where many Germans settled once they reached the United States.
What is the German Belt?
These were often put onto slaves by plantation owners especially after the invention of the cotton gin.
What are strict rules and quotas?
The elite class in the Northeast often knew this system in and out.
What is the European Trade System?
What is "courage of the Franconians"?
Black Americans had the right to do this in many Northern states before it gradually got taken away.
What is the right to vote?
Despite being landless and often poor this group of farmers didn't have much tension with the elite farmers in their region.
Who are the Yeoman farmers?