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26 Cards in this Set
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Middle Class
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Social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor; arose during the early 1800's
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Factory System
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System that cut costs and increases output by relying on machines to help do everything under one roof.
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Strike
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Refusal of workers to perform their job until employers meet union demands.
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Nativism
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Favoring native-born Americans over foreign-born.
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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His self and others introduced a new way of manufacturing goods.
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Lowell Girls
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Were single women from New England farms that lived in company-owned boardinghouses where older women acted as chaperones.
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John Deere
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A blacksmith from Illinois who designed a light but strong steel plow.
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Cyrus McCormick
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He developed a mechanical reaper that harvested six acres of grain in a day on its first trial practice.
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Elias Howe
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He was a factory apprentice in Lowell who patented a sewing machine for the home.
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Sarah G. Bagley
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Urged her co-workers to form a union after mill owners sped up production without raising wages.
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Know-Nothings
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These were the people who always answered "IDK" to everything.
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Cotton Gin
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Device developed by Eli Whitney in 1793 to separate short-staple cotton seeds from the bolls.
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Antebellum
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Pre-Civil War
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Yeoman Farmers
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Small landowning farmers who made up the majority of southern white society in the 1800's.
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Eli Whitney
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Developed the cotton gin in 1793 that made it easier to gin.
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Tredegar Iron Works
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Was one of the nations largest and best-equipped ironworks.
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William Ellison
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Learned to build cotton gins while being a slave.
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Overseers
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People who supervised slaves on large plantations.
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Drivers
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Slaves who helped overseers supervise other slaves.
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Gang Labor
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Work system in which groups of slaves performed specialized jobs.
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Spirituals
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Songs sung by slaves in the South; mixed African rituals and musical forms with Christian hymns to express slaves' religious beliefs.
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Gabriel Prosser
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Led a rebellion near Richmond, Virginia, involving hundreds of slaves.
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Denmark Vesey
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Was a prosperous, free African American carpenter and preacher and also was the mastermind of one of the revolts.
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Nat Turner
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He led a violent slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia.
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Underground Railroad
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Network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to the North and Canada.
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Harriet Tubman
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She was the most famous and successful conductor of the Underground Railroad.
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