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27 Cards in this Set
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What tools did American farmers use before 1800.
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oxen, harrow, hoe, scythe or sickle, flail-many of the same tools used in bible times.
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What were the inventions of John Deer, Cyrus McCormick, and Eli Whitney?
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Steel plow, reaper, cotton gin.
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What were the two major crops grown by southern farmers?
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Cotton and tobacco
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List two reasons for the slow development of the South's textile industry.
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lack of an an adequate power supply and lack of incentive since agriculture was an easy source of income.
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What system brought workers together in one place to produce many like items?
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the factory system
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what Englishman made significant contributions to rise of this system through his knowledge of machinery.
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Samuel Slater
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Who received the first patent for a sewing machine? Who received a patent a few years later and eventually joined forces with the first man?
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Elias Howe, Isaac Singer
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list some of the negative effects of the rise of industry.
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long hours for low wages, miserable, uneducated children who had to work to help support their families.
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What was the first American ship to make a trading expedition to China? Who were the captains?
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the Empress of China, John Green and Major Samuel Shaw.
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Who was the first American to circumnavigate the earth? What was the three-corner trade route that he helped to establish?
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Robert Gray; East Coast to West Coast to China.
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What military leader opened up American trade with Japan?
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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What is scrimshaw?
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carving on whalebone or whale ivory.
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What eventually made clipper ships obsolete?
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Steamships and railroads
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What two contrasting religious movements marked the early 1800s?
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The Second Great Awakening and Unitarianism
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Name two men influential in the revival of the early nineteenth century.
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Timothy Dwight and Asahel Nettliton.
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What was the first Unitarian church in America?
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Kings Chapel in Boston
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name one famous Unitarian leader.
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William Ellery Channing.
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William Ellery Channing
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leading Unitarian
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Timothy Dwight
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Leader of Second Great Awakening.
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John Deere
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The Steel Plow
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Robert Gray
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circumnavigated the earth
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Elias Howe
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Credited with inventing the sewing machine
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Organized factory work for girls in Massachusetts
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Cyrus McCormick
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The reaper
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Isaac Singer
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Formed a large, sewing machine company
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Samuel Slater
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Set up a textile mill in Pawtucket,R.I
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Eli Whitney
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Cotton gin and interchangeable parts
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