Ch 13 North and the South, Glenco
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| clipper ships | sailing ships with sleek hulls and tall sails clipped the amout of time in a long journey in half.
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| telegraph | electric signals to transmit messages.
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| morse code | transmitted message with dots and dashes
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| trade unions | organizations of workers with the same trade,or skill
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| strikes | refusing to work
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| prejudice | unfair opinion not based on facts
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| discrimination | unfair treatment of a group
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| famine | extreme shortage of food
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| nativists | people who oppossed to immigration
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| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin to help farmers remove seeds from cotton
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| capital | money to invest in businesses
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| yeomen | farmers who did not have slaves
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| tenant farmers | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in cash or crops
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| fixed cost | regular expenses such as housing and food
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| During the 1800s, advances in technology and | transportation shaped the North's economy.
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| African Americans endured hardship and misery. They made | no money and had no hope of freedom.
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| African Americans feared being | sold to another planter and seperated from their loved ones.
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| The main economic goal for a large plantation was to | earn profits.
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| In 1840 the US had 3,000 miles of train tracks. In 1860 it had | 31,00 miles of train tracks.
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| The development of the first railroads in the US was | small stretches of tracks connecting to rivers.
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| Mass production in factories began in | New England in the early 1800s.
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| By 1860, the Northeast part of the US produced | most of the country's manufactured goods.
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| Canals conected lakes and rivers | to open new shipping routes for goods for trade.
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| The steel tipped plow was invented in | 1837 by John Deere and made farming much easier.
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| Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical | reaper. Which harvested grain much faster than the hand held sickles.
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| Growing wheat became more profitable because of | agricultural inventions.
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| The North was mostly industrialized while the South was | mostly invested in agriculture.
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