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| Who invented the sewing machine? | Elias Howe |
| Who perfected the sewing machine? | Isaac Singer |
| Who invented the steel plow? | John Deere |
| Who invented the mechanical reeper? | Cyrus McCormick |
| With the advent of new inventions, what did many farmers do? | went to factories in the North |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| How did the telegraph change America? | news could travel in a matter of minutes |
| How did the cotton gin speed the cleaning of cotton? | It allowed them to clean the cotton more easily |
| These were fast ships that had huge masts. | clipper ships |
| Who were the first workers to unite? | artisans |
| How did unions try to gain their demands? | They went on strike |
| Who organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association? | Sarah Bagley |
| A person who enters a new country in order to settle there. | immigrant |
| The term for a severe food shortage | Famine |
| What particular famine caused many immigrants from Ireland to come. | Potatoe Famine |
| Where did Irish settle as opposed to Germans? | The Irish settled where they landed, bur Germans had more money and wer able to move west. |
| This is a name for a group of Americans who wnated to preserve the country for natural born citizens. | Nativists |
| What law tid Nativists want to limit immigration? | change waiting period for voting from 5 to 21 years. |
| What political party was formed by the Nativists? | The Know Nothing Party |
| A policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people. | Discrimination |
| Who invented the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
| What were important crops in the South? | cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, flour milling |
| The rich people in the South were called what? | the plantar class or the cottonocracy. The held most of the political power in the South even though most of the people in the South were poor planters. |
| Workers who worked the land and paid the owners rent with crops were called ________. | sharecroppers |
| Free African Americans were descendants of slaves who gained their independence how? | serving in the Revolutionary War |
| What were slave codes? | Laws passed by the South to keep slaves from running away or rebelling |
| What were some of the slave codes? | They could not gather in groups, not own guns, had to have a pass to leave the plantation, couldn't read or write, could not testify in court. |
| How did many African Americans cope with their harsh lives? | They sang spirituals |
| What African American led a major revolt and killed 57 whites and was later killed himself. | Nat Turner |
| Why were some people against immigrants? | They were afraid they would take jobs away from white Americans. |
| Why did many people reject the railroads? | it went through farm fields, worried about competition for canals, concerned about the reliablility and safety, noise, started fires, weak bridges |
| What religious group spoke out against slavery? | Quakers |
| How did Railroads affect farming in New England? | Fewer people needed to farm because they could get food that was shipped by rail |
| What effect does cotton have on the soil when it is planted year after year? | it wears it out |
| What country did many people believe free slaves should be sent to? | Liberia |
| Who started the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
