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47 Cards in this Set
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Robert Fulton
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INventor of the steamboat
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clipper ships
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a fast sailing ship with slender lines tall masts and large square sails
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Peter Cooper
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designed and built the first american steam locomotive
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telegraph
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an apparatus that used electric signols to transmit messages
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Samuel Morse
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an american inventor who invented the morse code
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Morse Code
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a series of dots and dashes representing letters of the alphabet
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John Deere
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inventor of the steel tipped plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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invented the mechanical reaper
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trade unions
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organizations of workers witht he same trade or skill
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strikes
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refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers
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prejudice
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an unfair opinion not based on facts
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discrimination
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unfair treatment of a group
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Freedoms Journal
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the first African American newspaper
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Sarah G. Bagley
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founded the Lowell Female LAbor Reform Organization
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famine
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an extreme shortage of food
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nativists
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people opposed to immigration because they felt it threatened the future of american born citizens
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KNow-Nothing Party
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a group of nativists who would often answer questions with the response "I know nothing"
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Upper South
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MAryland, Virginia, and NOrth Carolina
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Deep South
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Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
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Eli Whitney
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inventor of cotton gin
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cotton gin
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a machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers that dramatically increased cotton production
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capital
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money to invest in buisness
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William Gregg
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a merchant from Charlestown, South Carrolina who opened a textile factory in South Carolina
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Joeseph Reid Anderson
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took over the Tredger Iron Works in the 1840s and made it one of the nations leading producers of iron
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yeomen
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made up the largest group of whites in the south; they owned land and didnt own slaves
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tenant farmers
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farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in crops or in cash
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fixed costs
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regular expenses such as housing and feeding workers and maintaining cotton gins and other equiptment; stay the same from year to year
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credit
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a form of loan
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overseer
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a plantation manager
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spiritual
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an African American folk song
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slave codes
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the laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people
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Nat Turner
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a popular religious leader who led an armed rebellion against his owner in 1831; he killed 55 whites and was hung after
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Harriet Tubman
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a slave who traveled through the UNderground Railroad and then went back to help over 300 slaves become free
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Fredrick Douglass
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an African American leader who was born into slavery and recieved his freedom when he fled to the north
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The UNderground Railroad
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a netword of "safe houses" owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery and offered asistence to runaway slaves
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literacy
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the number of people who could read and write
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sectionalism
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an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of a country
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Henry Clay
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proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 he supported slavery and was a senator from Kentucky
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Missouri Compromise
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atmitted MIssouri as a slave state; admitted Maine as a free state; with the exeption of Missouri, slavery was banned from all states above the 36'30 N latitude
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Wilmont Proviso
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said that slavery should be prohibited from any land that could be aquired from MExico; not passed
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Calhoun's Proposal
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congress and/or territorial gavernment dont have the authority to ban slavery or regulate it in anyway
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Free-Soil PArty
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party that endorsed WIlmont Proviso
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Compromise of 1850
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1. California is admitted as a free state
2. New MIxico Territory would have no limits on slavery 3. New Mexico-texas border dispute is solved in favor of New Mexico 4. Slave Trade is banned in Washington D.c. 5. a stronger fugitive slave law |
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Fugitive Slave Act
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required all citizens to help catch runaways; anyone who aided a fugitive could be imprisoned
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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said that the slave futures of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would be chosen by the citizens; Missouri Compromise is ignored
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border ruffians
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people from mIssouri who traveled in armed groups so that they could participate in the Kansas slave election
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civil war
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a confict/war in the same counrty/state
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