Chapter 13
Capital
Money to invest in businesses.
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
How did settlement in the South expand?
Settlement in the South expanded because of cotton.
Why did some Southerners try to boost manufacturing in their region?
Some Southerners tried to boost manufacturing in their region because with more manufacturing and less reliance on a few staple agricultural crops as a way to strengthen the southern economy and integrate into emerging national economy.
Spiritual
An African American religious folk song
Morse code
An alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.
Harriet Tubman
An enslaved African American leader who was born into slavery but gained her freedom by fleeing to the North
Famine
An extreme shortage of food.
Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.
How did enslaved African Americans maintain strong family and cultural ties?
Enslaved African Americans maintained their family life as best as they could and developed a culture all their own.
Sarah G. Bagley
Founder of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization.
How do you think nativists would have defined a "real" American? A nativist would define a "real" American as a native-born, white citizen from America.
How do you think nativists would have defined a "real" American? A nativist would define a "real" American as a native-born, white citizen from America.
List three reasons workers formed unions in the 1830s.
Workers formed labor unions because they wanted 1.better pay 2.better working conditions 3.benefits for their labor.
List two differences between yeomen and plantation owners.
Yeomen: did not have slaves, farms smaller than plantations; Plantation owners: held slaves, much larger farms
Clipper ship
A fast sailing ship with slender lines, tall masts, and large square sails
Credit
A form of loan; ability to buy goods based on future payment
Cotton gin
A machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers, dramatically increasing the amount of cotton that could be processed.
William Gregg
A merchant from Charleston,South Carolina.
Underground Railroad
A network of "safe houses" owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery
Telegraph
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
Explain the three phases of industrialization in the North.
In the first phase,manufacturers made products by dividing the tasks involved among the workers.During the second phase,manufacturers built factories to bring specialized workers together.This allowed products to be made more quickly than before.In the third phase,factory workers used machinery to perform some of their work.
KnowNothing Party
Known as the American Party, they earned their name because they said they knew nothing about their organization. They were against immigration.
Trade Union
Organizations of workers with the same trade, or skill.
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called Clermont.
Eli Whitney
The inventor of the cotton gin in 1793.