| A | B |
|---|
| skilled workers | people with special craft or training |
| strike | refusing to work |
| lockout | factory owners shut down a business to avoid labor problems |
| Sarah Bagley | Lowell Female Labor Reform Association |
| Eli Whitney | cotton gin |
| Peter Cooper | US Steam Locomotive |
| Robert Fulton | steamboat |
| Cyrus McCormick | mechanical reaper |
| Samuel Colt | revolver |
| John Deere | plow |
| Charles Goodyear | vulcanized rubber |
| Samuel Morse | telegraph |
| Elias Howe | sewing machine |
| cash crops | cotton, tobacco, sugar cane |
| major Southern crops | cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, grain |
| Northern economy | based on manufacturing, produced textiles, ships, iron, lumber |
| Southern economy | heavily based on agriculture, supported by slave labor |
| Northern climate | warm summers, snowy winters |
| Southern climate | warm summers, mild winters, much rain |
| Northern geography | rocky, hilly, not good for farming |
| Southern geography | rich, fertile soil |
| Cottonocracy | large plantation owners controlled much of Southern society |
| Capitalism | private ownership of means of production |
| Capital | materials needed to start a business |
| economy | the way a society produces/distributes good and services |
| entrepeneurs | rsk takers/capitalists/people who start a business |
| laissez faire | hands off, let laone, government does not interfere with business |
| revolution | change in the established way, usually permanent |
| Smauel Slater | textile manufacturing |
| Lowell, Massachusetts | typical mill town |
| Irish Potato Famine | brought poor Irish immigrants to United States |
| National Trade Union | first American labor organization to represent workers in more than one city |
| crop rotation | an outgrowth of soil exhaustion from overuse |
| Missouri Compromise | states above 36 degrees latitude become free states, below 36 degrees become slave states |
| Resistance | slaves could-sabatoge, runaway, cause an uprising |
| Harriet Tubman | Runaway slave who became a conductor on the underground railraod; "Moses" |
| Negro Spirituals | words to sons often changed to be secret clues to help slaves runaway |
| Denmark Vesey | planned revolt as a free black, plan as destroyed because he was betrayed |
| Nat Turner | slave from Virginia, killed 60 whites, resulted in widespread fear of future revolt |
| Slave Codes | Laws designed to control the large slave population |
| reform | to make something better, to improve |
| crusade | holy war, relisgious war |
| Political reason to fight slavery | Declaration of Independence-"All Men Created Equal" |
| Religious reasons to fight slavery | Quakers felt it was a sin to won another, :all man equal |
| Pennsylvania | Quaker State, in 1804 all states north of Pennsylvania ended slavery |
| overseer | person who manages slaves, runs the slaves |
| social groups in the South | slaveholding whites, nonslaveholdiong whites, enslaved blacks, free blacks |
