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Chapter 13
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History
11th Grade
10/13/2011

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Embargos
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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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Eli Whitney
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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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Elias Howe
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sewing machine inventor
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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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Irish immigrants
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Britian owned Ireland and Britian needed land so they gave Irish land to British people;
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Potato Fammine
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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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Trusting the Immigrants
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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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Turn Pike
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Toll road used to make money; was for horses
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Canals
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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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James Watt
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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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Robert Fulton
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Inventor of the steam boat; makes it a two way trip
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Railroads
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Went East and West because canals went North and South; faster- 20 mph
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Samuel Morse
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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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Cotton Gin
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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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1808
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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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Slaves
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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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Evils of Slavery
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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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Nate Turner
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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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1860
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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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Mason Dixon Line
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between North and South; between Pennsylvania and Maryland
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North
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wanted tariffs; no slavery; cruel to immigrants
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South
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No tariffs; slavery
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Abolitionists
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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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William Lloyd Garrison
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famous abolitionist, wanted immediate relase of slaves instead of gradually getting it right
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Fredrick Douglas
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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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Harriet Tubman
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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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Underground railroad
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Secretive; Traveled at night; slept during the day;
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Edger Allan Poe
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famous writer during this time; The Raven; Horror weird writer
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Washington Irving
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Famous writer during this time; Legend of Sleepy Hallow, Headless Horseman
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Nathaniel Hawthron
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Famous writer during that time; The Scarlet Letter; witch craft, adultry
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White Women
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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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Susan B. Anthony
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First to try to make women's rights; died before women were legal to vote
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1820's-1840's
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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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Louis Braille
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From France; Came up with the Braille system in 1829
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Braille
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reading for the blind; raised dots on pages; invented by Louis Braille
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