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57 Cards in this Set
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Who invented the sewing machine in 1846.
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Elias Howe
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Which inventor demonstrated a reliable steamboat in 1807.
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Robert Fulton
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A fast sailing ship with slender lines, tall masts, and large square sails
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clipper ship
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Who designed and built the first American steam locomotive in 1830. Called the Tom Thumb.
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peter cooper
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An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages.
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telegraph
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who invented the telegraph and morse code
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samuel morse
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a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
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morse dot
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who invented the steel-tipped plow
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John Deere
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Who invented the reaper
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Cyrus Mc Cormick
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Organizations of workers with the same trade, or skill
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trade unions
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refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers
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strikes
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an unfair opinion not based on facts
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prejudice
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unfair treatment of a group
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discrimination
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An extreme shortage of food
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famine
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A person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants
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nativist
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The nativists formed secret anti-Catholic societies, and in the 1850s they joined to form a new political party the American Party. What was the American Party called?
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the Know- Nothing Party.
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what states were in Upper South
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Maryland, Virginia, and North carolina
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Which states were in the deep south
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georgia, south carolina, alabama, mississippi, louisianna, and texas
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who invented the cotton gin in 1793?
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Eli Whitney
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A machine that emoved seeds from cotton fiers, dramatically increasing the amount of cotton that could be processed.
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cotton gin
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money to invest in business
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capital
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what did you call the farmer who did not have slaves who made up the largest group of whites in the South
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yeomen
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What did you call southern whites who rented land and worked on the land on landlord's estates
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tenant farmers
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what did plantations have that had regular expenses such as housing and feeding workers and maintaining cotton gins and other equipment
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fixed costs
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A form of loan
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credit
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What do you call a person who supervises a large operation or its workers.
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overseer
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An African American religious folk song
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spiritual
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The laws in the Southern States that controlled enslave people
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slave codes
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Communities based on a vision of a perfect society
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utopia
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who were the only group who had sucecesfully had and stayed a utopia
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Mormans
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What did you call in the early 1800s a wave of religious fervor
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Second Great Awakening
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A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religous emotions
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revival
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a Conneticut minister and crusader against the use of alchol.
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Lyman Beecher
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Drinking little or no alcohol.
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Temperance
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A period of time when Maine passed a law in 1851 banning the maufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Temperance Movement
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Who was the person who wanted to lengthen the school year.
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Horace Mannn
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What do you call a school for training high-school graduates as teachers.
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normal school
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Who was a man who developed a method to educate people who were hearing impaired, opened the Hartford School for the Deaf in Conneticut in 1817.
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Thomas Gallaudet
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Who was a man who helped people who were visually impaired.
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Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
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Who was a school teacher who began visiting prisons in 1841.
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Dorthea Dix
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Any of a grup of New England writers who tressed the relationship between human being and nature.
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transcendentalist
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Who was a person who blieved into practice through civil disobedience- refusing to obey the laws he thought were unjustice. who was the guywho went to jail rather than pay a tax to support the mexicna war
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Henry David Thoreau
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Members of the growing band of reformers who worked to abolish, or end, slavery
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abolitionist
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Who was a group formed in 1816 by a group of white virginians worked who worked to free enslaved workers gradually by buying them from slaveholders and sending them abroad to start new lives
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American Colonization Society
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Where did the first african American settlers arrived in where
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Liberia
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The was the guy who wrote the newspaper The Liberator
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William Llyod garrison
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who were the first 2 woman to speak out publicly against slavery
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The Grimke Sisters
Sara and Angelina Grimke |
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Who was the most widely known African American abolitionist, who was born enslaved in Maryland
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Federick Douglass
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what did isabelle baumfree change her name to
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Sojourner Truth
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What was the network of escape routes from the South to the North
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Underground Railroad
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what did the seneca falls convention base their issue their declaration on
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Declaration of Independence
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The right to vote
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suffrage
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What was the period of time during the 1800s women held several national conventions.
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women's right movement
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the teaching of boys and girls together
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coeducation
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the daughter of a quaker abolitionist in rual new york, who worked for equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeduction
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susan b anthony
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Who was a women who was hoping to study medicine but was turned down by more than 20 schools
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elizabeth blackwell
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Who was Elijah Lovejoy
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Lovejoy edited an abolitionist newspaper in illinois. three times angry whites invaded his offices and wrecked his presses. The forth time the mob set fire to the building. When lovejoy came out of the building he was shot and killed.
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