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26 Cards in this Set
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Middle Class
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Included prosperous artisans, farmers,lawyers, ministers, shopkeepers, and their families
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Born in Massachusetts in 1775 to a prosperous merchant family.
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Factory Systems
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System that cuts costs and increase output by relying on machines to help everything under one roof.
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Lowell Girls
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Single women who worked in textile mills and lived in company owned boarding houses in Lowell Massachusetts
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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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John Deere
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A Blacksmith from Illinois, designed a light but strong steel plow.
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Cyrus McCormick
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Developed a mechanical reaper that harvested six acres of grain in a day on its first trail practice.
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Elias Howe
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A Factory apprentice in Lowell, patented a sewing machine for the home in 1846.
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Sarah G. Bagley
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One of the Lowell girl
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Nativism
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Favoring native-born Americans over foreign-Born
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Know-nothings
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American Party; political organization founded in 1849 by nativist who opposed the Catholic Church and supported measures making it difficult for foreigners to become citizens and to hold office
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Eli Whitney
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Developed the cotton gin that made it easier to gin, or separate, the seeds from short-staple cotton balls.
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Cotton gin
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Devise 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 landowing farmers who made up the majority of southern white society in the 1800s
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Tredegar Iron Works
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One of the nations largest and best-equipped iron foundries that operated in Richmond,Virginia, in the early mid-1800s
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William Ellison
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From South Carolina, learned to build cotton gin while a slave.
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Overseers
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People who supervised slaves on large plantation
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Gang Labor
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allowed overseers to assign goups of slaves to do specialized jobs, such as hoeing, picking, or plowing
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Drivers
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Slaves who helped overseers supervises other slaves
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Gabriel Prosser
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Led a rebellion near Rachmond, Virginia involved hundreds of slaves.
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Spirituals
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Songs sung by slaves in the South; mixed African rituals and musical forms with Christians Hymns to express slaves' religious beliefs
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Denmark Vesey
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A prosperous, free African American carpenter and preacher.
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Nat Turner
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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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Led the Underground Railroad, Born into slavery in Maryland about 1821.
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