history chapter 14

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Trade union

an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

· What did long workdays and dangerous conditions within factories often lead to?

death and injuries due to the long hours

Plantation owners

felt that he was wealthy if they had a lot of slaves.

People opposed to immigration

nativists

mmigrants and their customs

the immigrants came over with their customs so this is how we learned to have many customs.

Where immigrants lived during industrialization

the immigrants lived in the cities close to the factories where they worked. They made no money.

Capital

the most important city or town of a country or region

Discrimination

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

What were some reasons for the South's low literacy rate?

they did not need to go to school because they worked in the fields, they didn't go to school because they were very rural in the south unlike in the north because there was no railroads in the south (parents didn't want to send their children to school so far away they wanted them to work in the fields.)

The invention of the telegraph

which came first? used for long-distance communication. people used morse code

Average workday for factory workers

12.5 Hours a day for 6 days.

Literacy

Able to read and write

Workers tasks after industrialization

Craftsmanship, The Factory System, and the Taylor system.

Harriet Tubman

Escaped from slavery and created the underground railroad helping slaves escape from slavery in the south.

The Great Train Wreck of 1856

July 17th 1856 two trains collided in Pennsylvania,

Leader of a slave revolt in 1831

Nat Turner was the leader of the revolt in 1831.

Religious folk songs

Slaves sang songs called spirituals while working on the fields to pick cotton.

Why did industry develop more slowly in the South than it did in the North?

The North had more railroads and more factories South did not have as many railroads and no factories so this made their development a lot slower. Having more railroads made it easier to transport supplies for the war. The South relied more on manual labor and did not want to invest the money and time into building industries. The South made cotton.

Consequences of the cotton gin

There were more slaves because there was more cotton to be picked do to the cotton gin because now there can be more cotton being picked.

In the South, what was the relationship between increased cotton production and the increased number of enslaved African Americans?

When there are more slaves you can produce more cotton.

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