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Chapter 13 Unit 5
Mr.Parks on 8-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All natural resources | Land |
| Large numbers of workers | Labor |
| Equipment | Capital |
| Made a reliable steamboat | Fulton |
| Ships with sleek hulls and tall sails | Clipper ships |
| Designed and built the first American steam locomotive | Cooper |
| Place where Tom Thumb and a horse drawn train had a race | Balitmore |
| Where most of the railroads were | Midwest |
| An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages | Telegraph |
| American inventer made the telegraph and morse code | Morse |
| A series of dots and dashes | Morse Code |
| Treeless place west of Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota | Great Plains |
| Inventer of the steel-tipped plow | Deere |
| Made the mechanical reaper | McCormick |
| Mills established had entire production processes under one roof | Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Organizations of workers with the same trade or skill | Trade unions |
| Refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers | Strikes |
| Unfair opinion not based on facts | Prejudice |
| Unfair treatment of a group | Discrimination |
| Petitioned the state legislature for a 10-hour workday in 1845 | Bagley |
| Extreme shortage of food | Famine |
| People opposed to immigration were known as | Nativists |
| Nativists formed secret anit-Cathilic societies cuz the members answered questions with i know nothing it became known as the | Know Nothing Party |
| Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina became a center for the sale and transport of enslaved people throughout the region | Upper South |
| Georgia, S. Carolina, Alabama, Miss, Louisiana, and Tex and commited to cotton rice and sugarcane | Deep South |
| Invented the cotton gin | Whitney |
| Machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers | Cotton Gin |
| Money to invest | Capital |
| Opened a textile factory in S. Carolina | Gregg |
| Took over the Tredegar Iron Works and provided artillery and other iron products or the South | Anderson |
| Farmers who did not have slaves | Yeomen |
| Worked on landlords' eststes | Tenant Farmers |
| Regular expenses | Fixed costs |
| To receieve the best prices planters sold their cotton to agents in cities like | New Orleans and Charleston |
| Form of loan | Credit |
| Planters traveled to look at new land or to deal with agents in | Memphis |
| Plantation Manager | Overseer |
| African American religious folk song | Spiritual |
| Laws in the South that controlled enslaved people | Slave codes |
| Led rampage in Southhampton County Virginia | Turner |
| Slaves that succeeded in freedom | Tubman and Douglass |
| Network of safe houses owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery offered assistance to runaway slaves | The Underground Railroad |
| By 1860 the pop of ______ was 212,000 | Baltimore |
| Number of people who can read and write | Literacy |
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