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21 Cards in this Set
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Native Born Americans who distrusted immigrants were...
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nativists
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Who smuggled enslaved people from the West Indies?
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slave traders
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Who invented the Cotton Gin?
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Eli Whitney
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What is the site of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1813?
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Virgina
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What is the largest Southern city in 1850?
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New Orleans
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What were southern farmers and ranchers called?
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yeomanry
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Who built the Flying Cloud?
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Donald McKay
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Who helped to invent the Cotton Gin?
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Catherine Greene
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Who bought his freedom with money from a street lottery?
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Denmark Vesey
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Who was the inventor of teh telegraph?
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Between 1790 and 1860, the cost of enslaved persons....
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rose sharply
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Life in the South moved at what kind of pace?
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leisurely
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The demand for cotton by the North and Great Britain was increased as a result of...
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the Industrial Revolution
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Horticulture was taught to Americans by immigrants from...
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Germany
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In the North much unskilled labor was provided by..
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immigrants
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Many factory owners in the North hired women because women worked...
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for less money
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By the mid-1800s work in factories had become...
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dangarous
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In the 1850's labor unions reemerged mostly among...
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skilled workers
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Between 1840 and 1860, the number of immigrants who entered the United States was about...
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4.2 million
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Irish American Terence powderly was involved in...
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labor unions
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Describe the five tiers of teh Southern class structure.
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1. planters: wealthy plantaion owners who lead Southern society.
2. yeomanry: owners of small farms who generally held no slaves and depended on neighbors for social life and favors. 3. poor whites: whites living in the mountains or pine woods renting their land. They enjoyed rights not extended to Aferican Americans. 4. free African Americans: those who purchased or were given their freedom. They lived under strict rules. 5. enslaved African Americans: worked on plantations and were denied basic human rights. |
