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26 Cards in this Set
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Middle Class
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Included farmers artisans lawyers ministers shopkeepers and 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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the system of manufacturing
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Lowell girls
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lived in company owned boardinghouses were older woman
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John Deere
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built a light but strong plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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developed a mechanical reaper that harvested 6 acres of grain a day
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Elias Howe
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Patented a household sewing machine
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Sarah G. Bagley
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Urged her coworkers to form a union after the mill owners speed up production without raising wages
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Nativism
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the favoring of native born Americans
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Know-Nothings
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was a new political party
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Eli Whitney
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He created the cotton gin
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Cotton Gin
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Made it easier to separate the seeds from the cotton reducing the labor cost of cotton
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Tredegar Iron Works
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One of the nations largest and best iron works
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Antebellum
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It was a class of structure
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Yeoman Farmers
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Made up of the southern white society
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William Ellison
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was a slaved who learned how to make the cotton gin
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Overseers
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Skilled farmers
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Drivers
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assistants who picked up slaves
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Gang labor
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slaves that were skilled in one area of work
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Spirituals
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Slave religion haunting songs
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Gabriel Prosser
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led a rebellion near Richmond
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Denmark Vesey
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an proper and free slave
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Nat Turner
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lead a violent slave uprising
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Underground Railroad
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a network of white and African abolitionists that worked to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
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Was the most famous and successful conductor
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Yeoman Farmers
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made up a majority of the southern white society
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