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  • This large eastern bay is the destination for water from the Susquehannock River, the Potomac River, the James River and empties into the Atlantic Ocean
    The Chesapeake Bay
  • A group that tries to improve pay and working conditions for workers is known as?
    A Labor Union
  • Turner led a slave revolt in 1831 that killed about 60 white citizens. Also resulted in the death of more than 100 slaves that were not a part of the revolt.
  • Who was Eli Whitney?
    A northern industrialist and inventor who perfected the Cotton Gin
  • What does the word "antebellum" refer to?
    The time period prior to the Civil War
  • Southern plantation owners enslaving more than 20 people are part of the ___________ class?
    Planter Class
  • Name one outcome of the Industrial Revolution
    New jobs, growth of northern cities, increase in immigration
  • If the supply of labor goes up, and the demand for labor stays the same, workers will get paid _______?
    Less
  • What is the factory system that employed young, unmarried women, from local farms.
    The Lowell System
  • What body of water has made the news recently by an attempt to rename it the Gulf of America?
    The Gulf of Mexico
  • Poorly built, overcrowded apartments where many working class people lived.
    Tenements
  • Who led at least 70 slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad?
    Harriet Tubman
  • The economy of the South was characterized by ____________?
    Agriculture
  • What major river starts in Minnesota and drains into the Gulf of Mexico?
    The Mississippi River
  • Owns and works his own land with very few or no slaves.
    Yeoman Farmer
  • This smaller eastern bay is where water from SCH flows into after traveling down the Wissahicken Creek, the Schuylkill River, and then the Delaware River
    The Delaware Bay
  • What were the Nativists against in the mid 1800's?
    Allowing Immigrants into the United States
  • What is the Middle Class
    Created their own businesses or had skilled jobs. A social & economic level between the wealthy & the poor.
  • If the demand for labor goes up, and the supply of labor remains the same, workers will get paid ________.
    More
  • There were more than how many free African Americans living in the south just prior to the Civil War
    250,000
  • Under this labor system whole families were hired and trained to work in factories.
    Rhode Island System
  • Why did immigration was increase from Ireland in the mid-1800's
    A potato famine
  • Who was Sarah G. Bagley?
    A millworker herself, she formed the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association to try and influence the government to investigate mill conditions and enforce a 10
  • Freed African-Americans still faced ____________ in both the North and the South...
    discrimination and potential violence
  • Name one way enslaved Africans were able to keep their heritage alive and develop a new culture.
    passing down family histories / sharing customs and traditions / telling folktales and singing spirituals
  • The economy of the North was characterized by agriculture but also______________?
    Industrial Factories
  • Despite the government banning the importation of slaves in 1808, the demand for slaves __________ along with the market for slaves within the United States to work the southern plantations.
    Increased
  • What is a labor strike?
    When workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands
  • An area on land going across the south where the ecosystem supports cotton farming is called?
    The Cotton Belt
  • Why did immigration increase from Germany in the mid-1800's?
    Political Unrest and War
  • What river forms the border between Virginia and Maryland and flows through Washington DC on its way to the Chesapeake Bay.
    The Potomac River
  • Approximitly how large was the population of enslaved people in the south prior to the Civil War
    Approximately 4 million
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