Ch 13 North and the Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| clipper ships | sailing ships with sleek hulls and tall sails clipped the amout of time in a long journey in half. |
| telegraph | electric signals to transmit messages. |
| morse code | transmitted message with dots and dashes |
| trade unions | organizations of workers with the same trade,or skill |
| strikes | refusing to work |
| prejudice | unfair opinion not based on facts |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a group |
| famine | extreme shortage of food |
| nativists | people who oppossed to immigration |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin to help farmers remove seeds from cotton |
| capital | money to invest in businesses |
| yeomen | farmers who did not have slaves |
| tenant farmers | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in cash or crops |
| fixed cost | regular expenses such as housing and food |
| During the 1800s, advances in technology and | transportation shaped the North's economy. |
| African Americans endured hardship and misery. They made | no money and had no hope of freedom. |
| African Americans feared being | sold to another planter and seperated from their loved ones. |
| The main economic goal for a large plantation was to | earn profits. |
| In 1840 the US had 3,000 miles of train tracks. In 1860 it had | 31,00 miles of train tracks. |
| The development of the first railroads in the US was | small stretches of tracks connecting to rivers. |
| Mass production in factories began in | New England in the early 1800s. |
| By 1860, the Northeast part of the US produced | most of the country's manufactured goods. |
| Canals conected lakes and rivers | to open new shipping routes for goods for trade. |
| The steel tipped plow was invented in | 1837 by John Deere and made farming much easier. |
| Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical | reaper. Which harvested grain much faster than the hand held sickles. |
| Growing wheat became more profitable because of | agricultural inventions. |
| The North was mostly industrialized while the South was | mostly invested in agriculture. |
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