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26 Cards in this Set
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francis cobot lowell
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introduced a new way of manufacturing
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factory system
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doing everything under one roof by machine
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lowell girls
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they hired young single women
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john deere
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a blacksmith from Illinois desinged a strong light plow
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cyrus mccormick
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developed a mechanical reaper
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elias howe
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factory apprentice in lowell
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strike
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refusal to work
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sarah g bagley
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urged coworkers to form a union
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know nothings
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party members that would answer i know nothing
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nativism
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favoring native born over foreign born
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eli whitney
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developed the cotton gin
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cotton gin
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it refined cotton
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tredegar iron works
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one of the largest and best equipped iron works
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antebellum
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pre civil war in the south
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yeoman farmers
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they made a majority of the southern white population
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william ellison
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black that learned to build cotton gins when he was a slave
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overseers
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usually small farmers or relatives that managed slaves
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drivers
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slave picked that managed the other slaves
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gang labor
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it allowed overseers to assign special jobs such as picking or hoeing
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spirituals
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haunting songs that blacks sang
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middle class
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included farmers laywers ministers and shopkeepers
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gabriel prosser
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led a rebellion near richmond included hundreds of slaves
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denmark vesey
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free black he was a carpenter he started a uprising of slaves
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nat turner
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led a violent slave uprising believed god had chosen him to free the slaves
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underground railroad
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a network of people getting slaves into the north so they can be free
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harriet tubman
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she was the most famous and successful conductor of the railroad
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