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
The ____ were the large scale farmers in the south that had huge amounts of land and many slaves
Planters
“____ ___” is the term used to describe the importance of cotton in the south’s economy
King cotton
_____ we’re songs of hope sung by slaves
Spirituals
Stories with a moral lesson, _____ were also important aspect of Slave culture
Folktales
Economy, revolutionized cotton industry
Positive effects of cotton boom
Slave and technology increase
Negative effects on cotton boom
Work in house ( nursing, cooks, butlers, skilled artisans)
Domestic slaves
Carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers
Skilled workers
Work in fields (used plow / hoe)
Field hands
Maryland Delaware Virginia and North Carolina
Upper south states
Georgia South Carolina Alabama and Mississippi
Deep South states
The two groups of immigrants that made up the first great wave
Germans and Irish
Where did each of those groups settle?
Germans = Midwest
Irish = cities
Why did southern slave owners issue slave codes
To protect owners since slaves were considered property
Did all white southerners own a large number of slaves? Why or why not?
No
12% of south own slaves
Why did the south not industrialize like the north?
Climate was better agricultural things
North differences
More industry fields
Immigrants
Transportation
South differences
Climate made for agriculture
Slaves
No industry
