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26 Cards in this Set
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Middle Class
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Prosperous artisans, farmers, lawyers, ministers, shopkeepers, and their families.
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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He and others introduced a new way of manufacturing goods.
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The Factory System
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System made to cut costs and increase output, machines did everything under one roof.
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Lowell Girls
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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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A factory apprentice in Lowell, he patented a sewing machine for the home in 1846.
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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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Nativism
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Favoring a native-born American over the foreign-born.
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Know-Nothings.
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A group who organized to form an American party. When asked about their nativist activities party members would answer "I know nothing."
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Eli Whitney
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He developed the cotton gin.
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Cotton Gin
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It made it easier to gin, or separate, the seeds from short-staple cotton bolls.
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Tredegar Iron Works
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One of the nation's largest, best equipped ironworks, the company operates its rolling mills in the 1850s mainly with slave labor.
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Antebellum
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Pre-civil war
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Yeoman Farmers
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They made up the majority of the southern white society.
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William Ellison
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He learned to build cotton gins while he was a slave.
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Overseers
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Usually small farms, skilled workers, or planters' young sons or other relatives.
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Drivers
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Assistants picked from among the slaves.
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Gang Labor
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Allowed overseers to assign groups of slaves to do specialized jobs, such as hoeing, picking, or plowing.
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Spirituals
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An important part of slave religion. The songs of sorrow were sung during relaxation, work, and worship.
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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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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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A network of white and African American abolitionist who helped slaves escape to freedom in the North or in Canada.
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Harriet Tubman
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Made 19 trips back to the South and led more than 300 slaves, including her parents to safety. She was never captured and she never lost passenger.
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Strike
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The refusal to work until employers meet union demands.
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