History North - South Flashcards
Chapter 12-14
Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts for guns
Eli whitney
Made the first steam boat
Robert Fulton
Designed the mechanical reaper for harvesting wheat
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the steel bladed plow
John Deere
Invented the telegraph and a code system used with it
Samuel Morse
Leader of a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831
Nat turner
Organized a union for women working in textile mills
Sarah bagley
Memorized design of British textile machines and began the first mill in RI
Samuel Slater
Invented the first steam locomotive
Peter cooper
A _____ is a labor group that pushes for improvements in working conditions, pay, etc
Union
Sometimes workers will go on _____ or stop working until conditions improve
Strike
Immigrants and minority groups sometimes face _______ and _______. The Irish and Germans experienced this when they immigrated into the US in the 1800s
Prejudice and discrimination
The political party that wanted to make it harder for immigrants to become US citizens was called “_____ ______” or the American party
Know nothings
Southern whites that owned small farms with few or no slaves
Dirt farmers
Laws in slave states that prohibited the freedoms of slaves were referred to as
Slave codes