Southern Agriculture
What groups of people owned or invested in farms/plantations in the South?
EVERYONE!
Farmers/planters, lawyers, tradesmen
What invention made transportation faster, easier, and cheaper on land?
Steam Locomotive/Trains
Turnpikes
How many garments of clothing were enslaved people given in a year?
1 or 2
The potato famine caused immigrants from which European country to come to the United States?
Ireland
What is the name of the person who led the most deadly slave revolt in American History?
Nat Turner
What were large farms that specialized in cash crops and relied on slave labor called?
Plantations
What invention made transportation faster, easier, and cheaper on water?
Steamboats/Canals
Why did enslaved people sing songs in the fields?
To pass the time, to work consistently, to send messages
Immigrants from what country made up 1/3 of the total immigrants to the US in the 1840s?
Ireland
What type of jobs did Irish immigrants usually take?
Low paying, unskilled labor jobs
Who were overseers?/What did overseers do on plantations?
White employees of a plantation that made sure that enslaved people worked constantly.
What was the nickname given to women who worked in the Lowell Textile mills?
Mill girls
What continent were people who were forced into slavery through the trans-Atlantic slave trade from?
Africa
What invention separated cotton seeds from fibers?
Cotton gin
The National Road
What were ways that enslaved people rebelled against slave owners?
setting fires, armed rebellions, slow work, etc
What type of ship was known for its speed, ability to transport goods quickly, and narrow hull?
Clipper ships
Where on plantations did enslaved people work?
Fields, Homes
What was the name of the first steam locomotive in the United States?
Tom Thumb
Why were labor unions formed by mill workers?
to support the interests of workers, for better wages
Who were drivers?/What did drivers do on plantations?
Enslaved workers promoted to a position that managed other enslaved peoples work.
What industries existed in the Northern US?
Railroads, Iron, Whaling, Textiles
What cash crop connected Northern and Southern economies?
Cotton
What was the name of the first steamboat used in the US?
The Clermont