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Early U.S. - Chapter 8
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10th Grade
02/02/2010

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What social group was the largest in the north?
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Middle class
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Who was the man who created factory systems for women to work in?
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Francis C. Lowell
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Lived in crowded apartments and were plagued with disease
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The Poor
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Manufacturing that is done under one roof.
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Centralised manufacturing
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These women lived in boarding-houses & worked in factories.
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Lowell girls
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Who was the largest group of immigrants in the 1840's?
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Irish
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These people came to the U.S. after a failed revolution.
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Germans
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What was the reason the Irish came to the U.S.?
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The Potato Famine
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What was favoring native born Americans over immigrants?
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Nativism
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What did the American Party get renamed?
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The Know Nothings
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Developed the cotton gin to separate the seed from southern cotton
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Eli Whitney
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Developed a steel plow to turn prarie sod
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John Deere
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Inventor of the mechanical reaper that helped harvest plants
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Cyrus McCormick
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What was the nation's best-equipped and largest ironworks place?
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Tredegar Iron Works
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Patented the sewing machine for the home in 1846
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Elias Howe
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The group that made up most of the southern white society.
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Yeoman farmers/small farmers
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Who were the people that managed the slaves?
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Overseers
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Over what percentage did cotton make up of U.S. exports?
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50%
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What is another word for pre-civil war?
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antebellum
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Who were assistants picked from among the slaves?
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Drivers
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A former slave who made 19 trips to the south to free slaves.
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Harriet Tubman
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Who created a violent uprising in Virginia that killed 60 whites before being killed?
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Nat Turner
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What was the most common form of punishment for slaves?
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whipping
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Who was the free black who tried to start a rebellion in south Carolina, but was stopped?
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Denmark Vesey
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What was the bounty placed on Harriet Tubman?
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$40,000 dollars
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