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Middle class
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is any class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy.
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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businessman and co-founder of Lowell, Massachusetts.
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factory system
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was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s and later spread abroad.
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Lowell girls
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was the name used for female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 19th and 20th century.
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John Deere
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A guy who started the name
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Cyrus McCormick
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was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.
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Elias Howe
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was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.
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Sarah G. Bagley
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was an advocate for women's rights and one of the most important labor leaders in New England during the 1840s.
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Strike
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s a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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nativism
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favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.
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Know- Nothings
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was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted.
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Eli Whitney
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was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
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cotton gin
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is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand.
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Tredegar Iron Works
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was a historic iron foundry in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, opened in 1837.
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antebellum
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1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms.
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yeoman farmers
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refers chiefly to a free man owning his own farm, especially from the Elizabethan era to the 17th century.
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William Ellison
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was a free negro and former slave in South Carolina who achieved success in business as a cotton gin maker and blacksmith before the American Civil War.
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Overseers
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One who keeps watch over and directs the work of others, especially laborers.
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drivers
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People who lead what needed to be lead.
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gang labor
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is a reference within slavery to a division of labor established on the plantation.
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Gabriel Prosser
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was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800.
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Denmark Vesey
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was an African-Caribbean most famous for leading a slave rebellion in the United States.
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Nat turner
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.
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Underground railroad
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was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
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Harriet Tubman
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was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.
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