Chapter 11 (Lesson 2-3) Flashcards
What are steamboats?
Moved by steam engines, boats that were fast for travel on rivers.
What are Yankee Clippers?
Were made for ocean travel and were the fastest in the world for a short time.
What are railroads?
Were horse drawn in the beginning until 1830 when Peter Cooper made the first steam Locomotive.
Why did Railroads better for transportation?
Because they had straight lines. They didn’t have to go only on water.
Who was Elias Howe?
Isaac Singer created a sewing machine
Who was Samuel F.B Morse?
Created the Morse Code.
Why do we like the Germans?
We can relate to them overthrowing their government but failing and then fled.
Why do we hate the Irish?
They were Roman Catholics and a potato famine caused people to go hungry and starve (The Great Hunger/Great Potato Famine) so they immigrated to the United States.
Where did most Irish work?
On railroads
Who are Nativists and what did they want?
People who wanted to preserve America for white protestants. They became upset at the growing foreign population. (Someone who is Native to America)
What party did NYC create?
A secret society that transforms to Know Nothing Party
What percent of votes does the Know Nothing Party Get?
21%
The party soon splits due to the issue of slavery
How were African Americans treated in the North?
They were discriminated against
Thought to be inferior
What happened to slavery in the South?
It was a staple in the south (Cotton=Slavery)
Who was Eli Whitney?
Created a Cotton Gin
What is a cotton gin?
A machine that removes cotton seeds from the cotton faster. Increased the cotton trade.
What is discrimination?
Not allowing someone to have the same as others based on certain characterizations of that person.
What was life for African American in the South?
No public education
Few jobs except menial ones
Many were captured and sold into slavery
How was life like in the South for slaves?
Some slave owners treated their slaves well and looked at the, as an investment/family
Some slave owners treated slaves bad through beating, poor treatment, and murder
How did slave pass messages?
They sang spiritual songs to bring joy and pass messages.
How did some slaves resist?
They broke tools or didn’t work hard.
What did Nat Turner do?
Had a dream to kill whites. He killed 60 people. The counterattack against slaves and free blacks was even worse.
When did all states abolish slave?
1804
What did congress say about slaves in Ohio?
Ruled no slavery would allowed in Ohio when it was petitioning to be a state.
What was the Abolitionist Groups?
Groups who looked to abolish slavery nationally. American Colonization Society- Looked to relocate to Liberia in Africa
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Wrote the newspaper “The Liberator”. He was an abolitionist newspaper
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
A freed slave who wrote the newspaper “The North Star”. His book wrote about the horrors of slavery.
What were Underground Railroads?
Where white/black people worked together to help escaped slaves get to the north.
Who was Black Moses?
An escaped slave, helped more than 300 people escape to the north.
What did Conductors do?
Would help slaves escape and would have markings on doors or carpets hanging so that slaves knew the safe houses from threats. (50,000 slaves believe to have been freed)
