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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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introduced a new way of manufacturing goods
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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's girls
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Lived in a company-owned boardinghouses where older women acted at chaperones.
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John Deer
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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 a day on its first trial 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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Strike
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The refusal to work until employers met union demands
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Sarah G. Bagley
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She urged her co-workers to form a union after mil owners sped up production without raising wages
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Nativism
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Favoring native-born Americans over the foreign-born.
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Know-Nothings
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An group reorganized to form the American Party, and when they asked about their nativist activities, party members would answer with "I know nothing.'
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Eli Whitney
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Developed a cotton gin.
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Cotton Gin
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Made it easier to gin, or separate the seeds from short-spale cotton bolls.
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Tredegar Iron Works
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One of the nation's largest and best-equipped ironworks, the company operated it's rolling mills in the 1850's mainly with slave labor.
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Antebellum
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Pre-Civil war, south reflected the importance of land and slaves to the region's economy.
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Yeoman farmers
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Made up the majority of southern white society.
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William Ellison
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A slave that learned to build cotton gins
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Overseers
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Usually small farmers, skilled workers, or planters' younger sons or other relatives.
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Drivers
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Assistants picked from among the slaves
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Spirituals
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Haunting songs
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Gabriel Prosser
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Led a rebellion near Richmond, Virginia
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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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Most famous and successful conductor
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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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