| A | B |
|---|
| John Deere | invented a lightweight plow that made farming quicker |
| Telegraph | invented by S. Morse, sent electronic signals along a wire |
| Elias Howe | patented first sewing machine |
| Robert Fulton | invented first steam engine |
| Steam Engines | powered railroads that transported goods |
| John Griffiths | launced first clipper ship that transported goods quicker across the ocean |
| Eli Whitney | created the cotton gin that did the work of 50 slaves |
| Why cotton farms moved west | cotton wore out soil nutrients |
| products of southern farmers | tobacco, sugar cane, rice |
| 5 groups that made southern society | rich planters, small farmers, poor white, free African-Americans, enslaved African Americans |
| Factory Conditions | long hours, hot/cold, hazardous conditions |
| Artisans | workers who have learned a trade (carpentry) |
| Sarah Bagley | organized Lowell Female Labor Reform Assoc. |
| Most immigrants came from? | Ireland and Germany |
| famine | food shortage that caused immigrants to flee to the US |
| nativist | wanted to preserve the country for native-born, white citizens |
| Know-Nothing party | nativist formed, blamed problems on immigrants |
| slave codes | made it hard for African Americans to escape slavery (can't learn to read/write, no guns, no gathering in groups) |
