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| Who invented the lightweight steel plow? | John Deere |
| Who invented the mechanical reaper? | Cyrus McCormick |
| Where was Cyrus McCormick's factory? | Chicago |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| What was the device that sent signals over an electrical wire? | telegraph |
| Because of the speed of these boats the United States was able to have a huge part of the world's sea trade. | clipper ships |
| people that learned a trade | skilled workers |
| people that worked in jobs that required little training | unskilled workers |
| Unskilled workers | These workers were easily replaced |
| Skilled workers | these workers were difficult to replace |
| a group of people in the same skilled jobs organized to get better pay, working conditions, and shorter workdays | trade unions |
| union workers refuse to do their jobs | strike |
| a person who comes to a new country to live | immigrant |
| Why did Germans want to leave Germany and come to the United States? | political upheaval |
| rebels who wanted a democratic government who came to the United States to live | German immigrants |
| they came to the United States because of the potato famine | Irish immigrants |
| a policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people | discrimmination |
| people who wanted to preserve the country for Native born white citizens | Nativists |
| The main cash crop in the South | cotton |
| What were the cash crops in the South? | cotton, rice, tobacco, sugar cane |
| What was the highest social class in the South? | Plantation owners |
| Which was the largest group of whites in the South? | small farmers |
| This class of people in the South rented their land | poor whites |
| They were told to move or be a slave. Law were passes to stop them from voting and traveling | "free" blacks |
| one third of the total population of the South | slaves |
| these were laws to keep slaves from running away or rebelling | slave codes |
| He led a slave revolt in the South | Nat Turner |
