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middle class
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Included prosperous artisans, farmers, lawyers, ministers, shopkeepers, and their families.
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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He created the factory system.
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Factory System
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The idea of creating all the parts to a product under one roof.
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Lowell Girls
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Women that worked in factories, that lived in factory owned apartments under strict supervision.
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John Deere
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Designed a light, but strong steel plow.
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Cyrus McCormick
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Developed a mechanical reaper, that increased harvesting.
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Elias Howe
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Patented a sewing machine for home use.
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Sarah G. Bagley
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Women that organized a trade union for factory conditions.
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Strike
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The refusal to work until employers met union demands.
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Nativism
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Favoring citizens born in America over immigrants.
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Know-Nothings
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It was made up of Activists, it was a political party that got a lot of support.
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Eli Whitney
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Developed the cotton gin.
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Cotton Gin
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Machine that made it easier to separate the cotton seed from the ball like shell.
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Tredegar Iron Works
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One of the largest and best equipped iron works in the nation.
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antebellum
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Pre-civil war.
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yeoman farmers
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These were small farmers that made up most of the white southern society.
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William Ellison
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He learned how to build cotton gins, and then bought his freedom and his family's freedom.
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Overseers
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People who looked over the slaves while they worked.
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drivers
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Slaves picked to help watch over 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 slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia that involved hundreds of slaves.
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Denmark Vesey
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He thought of the revolt that Gabriel led. He was a free african american, he was a preacher.
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Nat Turner
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Led a violent slave revolt in Virginia. They killed over 60 whites in the area, once he was caught he was hung.
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Underground Railroad
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Network of whites and free african americans that worked to help escaped slaves reach freedom in the north or Canada.
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Harriet Tubman
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Most famous and successful leader of the underground railroad.
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