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Sectionalism
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Term that refers to when a politician favors one region of the country over another
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North
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The section of the Country that had the most businesses and Industry
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South
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The section of the Country that was primarly Agricultural
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North
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The Section of the Country where most immigrants resided
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South
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The section of the Country that most resisted social changes
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North
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The section of the country that had the most railroads tracks and canals
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South
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The section of the country that relied on free labor
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South
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The section of the country that had an agrucultural ecomnomy
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North
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The section of the country that had a factory based economy
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Running water
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Most industries were located in the North because of what power source
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Fugutive slave Law
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Law that required anyone that knew of a escaped slave to return him to his master.
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North
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What section of the country was mostly urban?
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South
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Cotton was a main crop of which Section of the Country?
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Cyrus McCormick
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Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper
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Eli Whitmey
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Inventor of the Cotton Gin
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John Deere
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Inventor of the steel plow
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Robert Fulton
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Inventor of the steamboat
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Clermont
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The first steamboat
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It enabled goods to be sent upstream cheaper and quicker because roads were in poor condition
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How did the steamboat help the economy ?
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Wilmont Provisio
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a proposal to outlaw slavery in the area added to the United States in the Mexican Cession
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Eli Whitney
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Inventor of the concept of interchangable parts
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Inventor of the telegraph
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Morse Code
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Code used by telegraph
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Cotton Gin
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Technological advancement (invention) that allowed for the prolonging of slavery by making the use of slave labor more economically rewarding. It mechanically separated seeds from cotton balls
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Industrial Revolution
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A period of Rapid Growth of Business and Industry in the United States
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Revolution
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A complete and basic Change. Today we live in a technological one because computers and tech advances have affected every part of our lives.
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Irish
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Immigrant group that came to the united states because of a potato famine in their country
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Germans
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Immigrant group that came to the united states to seek farmland, settled in the midwest
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Federalist
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Political party that supported approving the constitution/strong central government
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Anti Federalist
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Supported strong state governments and limited federal power
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Know Nothing party
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Anti Immigration party
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Free soilers
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Anti expansion of slavery party
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Abolitionist
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Political party that wanted to get rid of slavery everywhere
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National Republicans
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Anti Jackson Party
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Democrats
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Party that supported Andrew Jackson and the common man
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1824
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Election in which Jackson supporters felt they were cheated
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Legal immigrants must be what age to apply for citizenship?
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5 years
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Legal immigrants must live in the United States how long before applying for citizenship?
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The United States Constitution
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To be a citizen Legal imigrants must agree to support what American document?
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English
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Legal immigrants must understand written and spoken...
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U.S. History and government
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Legal immigrants must show basic knowledge of ...
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Naturalization Court
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To be a citizen legal immigrants must go before what body to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S.
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Natural Born
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A citizen that is born in the United States
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Naturalized Citizen
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A person that becomes a citizen by going through the immigration process
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Financially
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All legal citzens must be able to support themselves......
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Popular Soverginty
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The Idea that people should decide for themselves wheather or not their state would be free or a slave state
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Law passed that determined that the last of the Louisiana Territory would use Popular Soverginty as a way to determine how they entered the Union
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Compromise of 1850
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Compromise that determined that California would enter as a free state and the Southwest would decide to be slave state or not by popular vote
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Natural born citizens and naturalized citizens
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The right to vote are enjoyed only by whom in America?
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Natural born Citizens
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The right to hold elective office including the presidency is enjoyed only by whom in America?
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Protection of the U.S. Government
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Everyone enjoys what right in America even if they are here legally or illegally here
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Natural born citizens and Natualized Citizens
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Only ____ and ______ are obligated to be loyal to the United States Government.
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Natural born citizens, naturalized Citizens and legal Aliens
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These groups have the right to benefits of public policy such as welfare and education
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Nullification Crisis
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Crisis that occured when South Carolina threatened to succeed from the Union because the federal government wanted to enforce a high tariff on imported goods
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Nullifcation
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The power of a state to ignore a law passed by the federal government if they felt it was unconstitutional or unfair.
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Missouri Compromise
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Allowed Missouri to come in as a slave state and brought Maine in as a free state prohibited the expansion of slavery North of Missouri's Southern border
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Inidan Removal Act
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Bill passed by Andrew Jackson that called for the removal of American Indians west of the Mississippi River
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Age of Jackson
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Period of time Named for Andrew Jackson
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The National Bank
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Jackson wanted to kill this institution by vetoing it charter renewal. He later removed federal monies from it because he felt it was unconstitutional and did not favor the common man.It resulted in economic dispair in the country
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State Banks
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Jackson removed the federal government money from the national bank to the ...
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Common Man
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Jackson has been called the champion of the .....
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Kitchen Cabinet
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Group of unoffical advisors of President Jackson
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The Spoils system
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After Jackson was elected he replaced all his cabinet members with his friends this became known as ....
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Andrew Jackson
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The hero of the battle of New Orleans
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increased the power of the president
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Jackson's lasting influence on the presidency is that he
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Nicholas Biddle
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The head of the national bank and the enemy of Jackson
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Protective Tariff
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A tax put on goods coming into a country to force people in a country to buy goods produced in that country
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Embargo
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To ban trade with a country or countries
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Embargo Act
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Banned trade with all foreign countries. (Jefferson)
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Alexander Hamilton
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Opponet of Jefferson, he supported protective tariffs to protect American industry
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to make loans to buisiness and industry
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Hamilton wanted a National bank for what reason?
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gave too much power to the Federal Government. He was a Anti Federalist
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Why was Jefferson against a national bank?
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National Bank
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A bank established to keep our nations money
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McCulloh vs Maryland
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Mary land tried to pass a tax that would limit the national banks operation in Maryland, the Cashier of the National bank in Maryland refused to pay the tax and the case went to the supreme Court.The court decided that a National bank was Constitutional
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Jackson
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He thought a national bank was an unconstitutional extention of the power of the federal government. He thought that states should have the right to control the bank.
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Cumberland Road
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The first National Road. Built in Maryland.
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Erie Canal
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Connected the great lakes to the Hudson River (Buffalo to Albany) and made New Yark a major port city.
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Immigrants with picks and shovels
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Who dug the Erie Canal?
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Peter Cooper
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built "Tom Thumb" a small powerful steam locamotive
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Railroads
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Industry that gave rise to the coal industry
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Dorothea Dix
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Helped to have mentally ill people treated in professional facilities not jailed as criminals
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Common School Movement
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Movement that said all school children should be taught in a common place.
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Horace Mann
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leader of the common school movement
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Expansion of voting to more people
Greater insurance that the majority rule |
What are two major componets of Jacksonian Democracy?
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Republican
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Free soilers, abolitionist, whigs and democrats came to gether and formed which political party
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Steam powered Engines
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What technological advancement allowed peole to bulid factories most anywhere?
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Richard Arkwright
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Inventor of the water frame used for spinning thread
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the importation of slaves were banned
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Why did slave domestic slave trade increase in the early 1800's?
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unsafe, workers appeared to be under the control of the machines instead of in control of the machines
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what were working conditions in the mills like?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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A abolistionist newspaper publisher who wrote the liberator
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Harper's Ferry
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John Brown's attemp to gain weapons for slaves to fight for their freedom
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John Brown
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An abolitionist that went on a raid to kill slavery promoters
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Fredrick Douglass
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Editor of the North Star, he was an escaped slave who taught himself to read and write.
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Harriet Tubman
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The leader of the undergroud railroad.
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Lowelll System
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Practice of factories to hire young girls to work
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Rhode Island System
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Practice of hiring families to work in the factories
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