Wilson Second Semester Final

• Innovation: A new development or invention
• Mechanized: Operated by or equipped with machines
• Industrialization: Development of industries in a country and a wide scale.
• The innovation of industry and technology was in the early 1800's.
• Entrepreneurs: Built factories to bring specialized workers together.
• Transportation had drastically improved. People were using steam boats, railroads, canals, and clipper boats.
• The man who made the first locomotive/steam-powered train was Peter Cooper.
• The railroads connected the Midwest to the East.
• Consumable products and livestock were often transported through trains.
• Many engineering issues- ships sank and trains crashed.
• The telegraph was invented by a man by the name Sam Morse.
• Farmers moved to Prarie lands such as Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota.
• Farmers worried that their tools wouldn't be able to break through hard prairie sod.
• 1. Steel Tipped Plow: Helped cut through the hard sod.
  2. Mechanical reaper: Sped up the harvest of wheat.
  3. Thresher: Quickly separated grain from stalk
• John Deere: Invented the Steel tip plow

  Cyrus McCormick: Invented mechanical Reaper.
• Wealthy families of planters who made their money from cotton were called- Cottoncracy
• The Author of "Tom's Cabin" is Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Navists were people who wanted to preserve the country for native-born white citizens.
• In 1844 Samuel Morse received a patent for the telegraph.
• The textile industry was most common (relevant) in New England.
• The telegraph benefited newspaper reporters, businesses, and the military.
• Chicago grew due to its geography and railroads
• The cotton gin helped slaves clean cotton more quickly causing cotton growth to become more profitable
• The Irish left Ireland due to the potato famine in their land
• Emmigrants came to the US for a better hope in life.
• Most Irish immigrants moved to Boston and New York upon coming to the U.S.
• • The Cotton Kingdom consisted of South Carolina, through Alabama, Mississippi and Texas.
• The South's progress in industry was slower than the Norths
• The South relied on getting their fabrics and other products from the North and Europe
• • Southerners defended slavery because they thought slavery was required for the economy
• Yeomen: Farmers who generally owned small farms.
• Rural Poor: People who were strongly independent and looked down upon.
• Plantation Owners: The rich whites who owned excessive amounts of land
• Domestic Slaves: Specialized in house chores
• Trained Slaves: Special building skill sets such as ironwork, pottery, woodshop, tending to farm animals
• Overseer: Plantation manager
• Nat Turner: led violent rampages to farm owners killing 55 whites
• • Harriet Tubman: Helped people escape from slavery from the South to the North
• Fredrick Douglas: Helped slaves escape from the South
• Underground Railroad: Network of Safe Houses.