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44 Cards in this Set
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When was Slavery abolished? |
1865 |
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When was Slave importation made illegal? |
1808 |
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What caused the Irish to immigrate? |
Potato famine |
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The Irish had the poorest... |
working conditions. |
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The Irish were refused work except for... |
digging out canals. |
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Where are the try works located? |
upper deck, forward part |
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In whaling, ____ was more important than ___. |
Ability was more important than race. |
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Why was whaling so diverse? |
Whaling ships went all over the world |
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Why was whaling so dangerous? |
sharp objects, slippery decks, falling from mast, violent whales |
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Who built the FIRST mill in US Pawtucket, Rhode Island and memorized mills in England, brought to US? |
Samuel Slater |
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What is the Waltham-Lowell System? |
Where the mill owners hired only girls. |
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Where was Francis Lowell's first mill? |
Waltham |
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Who invented the cotton gin? |
Eli Whitney |
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What did the cotton gin do? |
Took the seeds out of the cotton |
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What were the advantages of the cotton gin? |
more cotton was sent faster to the north, = more $$ |
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What did a cooper do? |
Assemble barrels on the whaling deck. |
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Who was William Loyd Garrison? |
A Bostonian, who ran the abolition newspaper, The Liberator |
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What did the abolition movement work to do? |
Abolish slavery |
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Who were some other people that spoke out against slavery? |
Fredrick Douglas and Sojourner Truth (escaped slaves) |
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Who helped over 2,000 slaves escape on the underground railroad? |
Levi Coffin |
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Who was the "Father of the Underground Railroad?" |
William Still |
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What was the name of the trading ship that was overthrown? |
Amistad |
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An enslaved African who overthrew the Amistad. Who was he? |
Joseph Cinque |
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How long was the Amistad trial, and what was the outcome? |
3 years, allowed to return to Africa |
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What did John Newton do? |
Slave ship captain, who changed his ways and became a preacher. |
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Who wrote Amazing Grace? |
John Newton |
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What was Ollauduh Equiano's other name? |
Gustavas Vasa |
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Who was Gustavas Vasa/Ollauduh Equiano? |
A slave who bought his freedom and became an abolitionist |
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Who was the "Father of Steam Navigation?" |
Robert Fulton |
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The Erie canal connects to... |
The Hudson river |
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What did the Erie Canal allow ships to do? |
Go to St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic to trade |
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What did the Panama Canal allow ships to do? |
Cut through Panama to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific instead of rounding south America saving 8000 miles |
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What was the Clermont? |
Robert Fulton's first steamboat |
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What did Henry Shreve do? |
Improvements on the paddle and also a snag boat |
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What did the snag boat do? |
Cleared away the trees and brush in rivers |
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What was the Tom Thumb? |
The name of Peter Cooper's first train in the US |
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What was the Savannah? |
The name of the first steam boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean |
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What were the CONS of early trains? |
Dangerous, tipping trains, sparks |
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What was the worst disaster ever? |
Saltana, designed to hold 376 people, overloaded with 2,300 Union soldiers at the end of Civil War. Extra weight caused boiler to explode setting boat on fire. Around 1700 people were killed. |
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Who was Denmark Vessey? |
Led slave uprising that failed, huge but betrayed |
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Who was Herman Melville? |
wrote Moby Dick, inspired by the essex, whaler |
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Who was Lewis Temple? |
Invented the toggle harpoon (African American blacksmith) |
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What were three plantation cash crops? |
Cotton, tabacco, rice, corn |
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Who was Owen Chase? |
First mate on whaling ship Essex which was rammed by whale |
