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included prosperous artisans, farmers, lawyers, ministers, shopkeepers, and their families
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middle class
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Helped introduce a new way to manufacture goods
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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The system of having all parts of manufacturing under one roof
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factory system
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single women that lived in company-owned boarding houses where older women chaperones
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lowell girls
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a blacksmith from Illinois that designed a light but strong steel plow
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John Deere
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Developed a mechanical reaper that harvested six acres of grain in one day on it's first trail practice
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Cyrus McCormick
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a factory apprentice in Lowell, patented a sewing machine for the home
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Elias Howe
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refusal to work until employers met union demands
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strike
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A Lowell girl that urged her co-workers to form a union after mill owners sped up production without an increase in wages
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Sarah G. Bagley
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favoring native born Americans over the foreign born
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Nativism
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the group that would answer with " I know nothing" when asked about nativist activities
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Know-Nothings
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he developed the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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made it easier to gin, or separate, the seeds from short-staple cotton bolls
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cotton gin
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One of the nation's largest and best equipped ironworks
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Tredegar Iron Works
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made up the majority of southern white society
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yeoman farmers
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learned to build cotton gins while a slave
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William Ellison
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usually farmers, skilled workers, or planters young sons or other residents
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overseers
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pre civil war
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Antebellum
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assistants picked from among the slaves
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drivers
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allowed overseers to assign groups of slaves to do specialized jobs
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gang labor
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haunting songs
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spirituals
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led a rebellion near Richmond, VA in 1800
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Gabriel Prosser
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a prosperous free African American carpenter and preacher
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Denmark Vesey
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led a violent uprising in Southhampton County, VA
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Nat Turner
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A network of white and african american abolitionists who helped slaves escape into the freedom of the North or Canada
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Underground Railroad
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The most famous and successful conductor of the underground railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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