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How industrialization was powered (literally) |
Steam (Boats/trains) |
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Lowell Factory System |
Enlisted young woman, mostly farmer's daughters in late teens and early twenties. Were well fed, carefully supervised, and housed in clean dormitories. Didn't last long because it was hard to make money whist doing this. |
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Factors that got in the way of labor unions |
Immigrants. "If you don't want to work for me, Victor will and wont complain and i can pay him less" |
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Cult of Domesticty |
Confined women to the house and their main jobs was to be mother, not to get jobs. |
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Centers of econ. power on South |
Lower South, the expanding agricultural regions in the news states of the southwest. |
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Why south didn't industrialize? |
They made good money from agriculture, and wealthy southerners had spent so much money on lands and slaves they didnt have money for other ventures. Also its too damn hot in the south. |
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What united southerners before war? |
That they were white, and even if they were poor at lest they weren't black. They were unified in their supremacy towards blacks. |
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Most famous slave revoult |
Nat Turner and a group of slaves killed 60 white men, women, and children in Southampton county. |
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Henry David Thoreau |
Said each individual should work for self realization by resisting pressures to conform to society's expectations and using your own instincts. Advocate for civil disobedience- public refusal of unjust laws. |
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Protestant Revivalist |
Believed every individual was capable of salvation through his or her own efforts. Became an effort to reform society. Apposed excessive use of alcohol |
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Uncle Tom's cabin |
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Brought the message of abolitionism to the masses. Her novel invoked sectional tension. |
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Government of MX (1820-30S) |
Was unstable, and angry at Americans for flooding their land and increased powers to protect itself. Outraged of Americans proclamation for independence, they attack Americans at The Alamo. |
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Causes of Mex. war |
Mexico not acception offer Polk had given them to purchase NM and CA. That spawned an American attack |
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California wanting to join the union |
came in and slavery was to voted on (popular sovereignty) |
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