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What part of the United States was the most indutrialezed?
the North
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Who led the most infamouse slave revolt?
Nat Turner
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Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F.B. Morse
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Who invented the sowing machine?
Alias Howe
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Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Eli Whitney
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Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
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What did free slaves in the North face?
Discrimination
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What caused over 1 million people to leave Ireland?
the famine
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What was the Know-Nothing Party made of?
nativists
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Which invention allowed merchants to find out about businesses quickly?
the telegraph
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What were the 4 and more million people who arrived in the mid-1800s called?
immigrants
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What was the majority of southern whites made of?
small famers
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Which part of the social pyramid in the South dominated the southern way of life and southern politics?
planters
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What was a result of so many improvements in farming?
thousands of people left for the city
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What were the fastest trade ships called?
Clipper Ships
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What development allowed manufacturers to build factories anywhere?
steam power
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What were the four main products of the South?
cotton, rice, tobacco, and sugar cane
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Why did cotton planters need so much land?
cotton wore out the nutrients in the soil
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Which two countries provided the most immigrants?
Germany and Ireland
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Which group called for shorter workdays and safer conditions?
the Trade Unions
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Which laws forbade African American gatherings and them learning to read and write?
the Slave Codes
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Who wasn't allowed to vote or travel?
the freed slaves in the South
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Who said that slavery went against the Decleration of Independence and religion?
Quakers and Reformers
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Who was the crusader for the better treatment of the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
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Who was known for improving education?
Horace Mann
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Who campaigned for women's rights and abolition?
Sojourner Truth
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Who was the best known black abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
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Who was a Quaker minister and a women's right fighter?
Lucretia Mott
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Which campaign was against alcohol?
the Temperance Movement
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Who wanted to end slavery?
abolitionists
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Who started the Second Great Awakening?
Charles Grandeson Finey
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What was the antislavery newspaper by Garrison called?
the Liberator
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Improving _____ _________ is vital because it makes better citizens.
public education
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Most northern states had what?
a public elementary school in every town
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Which college was the first women college?
Mount Oleo
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What rights did the women at the Seneca Falls Convention declare?
voting, church, school
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Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
a women who led abolitionist and womens rights
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What did the American Colonization Society set up for freed slaves?
the colony of Liberia
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Why did northern workers fear slaves?
they thought slaves would take their jobs
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Who was Henry David Thoreau?
a man who reflected on simple living in a natural environment in his book Walden
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Who was Washington Irving?
the person who wrote the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
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What was the Hudson River School?
the first American group to paint landscapes (painted the Hudson River)
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