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| 1812; United states wanted to build U.S. factories; realized we could do it just as good as the rest or even better |
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| Came up with Standardized Parts; general size and parts made exactly the same; cotton gin, first to patent, stole concept from him anyway |
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| Factories started hiring lots of women |
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| get paid 1/2 the price for the same work as men; women are used to taking orders; do boring jobs better |
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| 1820's Cities are starting to grow |
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8,000 - during Revolutionary War, 5 towns
1840's - 44 towns
1860's - 161 towns |
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| Britian owned Ireland and Britian needed land so they gave Irish land to British people; |
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| All the potatoes got rotton and all they grew was potatoes and people died from disease and hunger. 1 million died in Ireland, and 1 million moved to the United States |
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| When Irish and German first came we didn't trust them becuase they were Catholic and Catholic is what we came to America to get away from in the first place |
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| Toll road used to make money; was for horses |
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| Man made waterways; cheeper becuase you could haul more product on a boat than a wagon; Erie Canal most famous |
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| inventor of the steam engine; before invented you could go down the river but you couldn't come back up |
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| Inventor of the steam boat; makes it a two way trip |
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| Went East and West because canals went North and South; faster- 20 mph |
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| Morse Code; improved the telegraph; telegraph lines went right along the railroad; spread news faster; Railroads could communicate between each other |
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| people started to grow cotton even more; could have more crops becuase the slaves didn't have to pick out the seeds from the cotton |
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| When the topic of slavery could be brought up again since it has been outlawed by the constitution; Could not bring any slaves into the US from Africa but could still sell slaves from state to state |
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| only 1/4 farms used them; most couldn't afford them-newborn=$200;Jobs=field work, household servents, carpenter, blacksmith; treated fairly? still didn't have freedom |
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| Families were broken up becuase they were treated as property; physically beaten such as whipped. the blacks outnumbered the whites so they had to scare them so they would be obedient |
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| Why did the slaves put up with it? |
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| Religion; short life of doing what they are suppose to do so they will be rewarded for being obiedient; suffer for life=eternity |
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| Led a slave rebellion and killed over 57 whites; captured him, hung him; 3/4 people didn't have slaves but they wanted to become rich enough to get slaves |
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| 260,000 free blacks in America but were still afraid cus someone could come and take them back; Many free slaves went back to Liberia |
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| between North and South; between Pennsylvania and Maryland |
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| wanted tariffs; no slavery; cruel to immigrants |
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| opponents of slavery; defends slaves; Many were north or African American; South didn't understand because slavery was in the Bible; Said slaves weren't getting treated as bad as the immigrants in teh north |
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| famous abolitionist, wanted immediate relase of slaves instead of gradually getting it right |
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| famous abolitionist; was an escaped slave; South didn't respect him becuase he was once a slave |
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| famous abolitionist; lead the Undergroud Railroad; said she was going to kill the slaves if they wanted to go back; saved 300 people |
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| Secretive; Traveled at night; slept during the day; |
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| famous writer during this time; The Raven; Horror weird writer |
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| Famous writer during this time; Legend of Sleepy Hallow, Headless Horseman |
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| Famous writer during that time; The Scarlet Letter; witch craft, adultry |
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| Very limited; could not speak in public; could not lead a prayer service; controlled by their husbands; land inherited went to husbands; wages she earned was the husbands; Husband could punish her; no voting; no education |
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| First to try to make women's rights; died before women were legal to vote |
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| wanted to outlaw drinking; nothing good happened in bars - drinking, gambling, prostitution, fighting, shooting & death, heavy drinking; if you aren't at home you aren't wiht your family or at work |
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| From France; Came up with the Braille system in 1829 |
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| reading for the blind; raised dots on pages; invented by Louis Braille |
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