History Chapter 13
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- Samuel Morse
- American Inventor of the telegraph and the morse code
- Tenant Farmers
- People that rented land to farm
- Prejudice
- An unfair opinion not based on facts
- Strikes
- Refusing to work to put pressure on employers
- Cyrus McCormick
- Invented a machine that would ease the burden of farm work
- Cotton Gin
- a machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers
- Nat Turner
- a popular religious leader among fellow slaves
- William Gregg
- Opened his own textile factory in South Carolina
- Joseph Reid
- Took of the tredegar iron works and made it of the nation leading producers of iron
- Frederick Douglass
- Born into slavery and helped with the underground railroad
- Credit
- a form of a loan
- Harriet Tubman
- Born into slavery feld north and helped with the underground rail road
- Mallard Fillmore
- Know-Nothings supported him and there presidential candidate [he lost]
- Robert Fulton
- Invented a steamboat and changed river travel
- Overseer
- Plantation Manager
- Trade Union
- Organization of workers with the same trade or skill
- Discrimination
- Unfair treatment of a group of people
- Telegraph
- An Apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages
- Spiritual
- A black religious folk song
- Capital
- Money to invest in buisnesses
- Morse Code
- A series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
- Sarah G. Bagley
- a weaver who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform petitioned for a 10 hour work day
- Nativists
- People opposed to immigration
- Elias Howe
- Invented the sewing Machine
- Peter Cooper
- Designed and built the first American steam locomotive
- Clipper Ship
- Ships with sleek hulls and tall sails
- James Buchanan
- Mallard Fillmore lost predidentail elections to
- Yeoman
- Famers who didnt have slaves
- John Deere
- Invented te Steel-tipped plow, mechanical reaper and the thresher
- Slave Codes
- laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people
- Eli Whitney
- Invented the Cotton Gin
- Famine
- An extreame shortage of food
- Fixed costs
- Regular expenses such as housing feeding workers mantaining cotton gins and other equiptment