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- 4. Invention that caused a "boom" in cotton production.
- 6. The first factories were built in the _________ in states.
- 7. Machine that could spin several threads at once
- 10. Railroads also greatly increased the size of the American ___________ and fueled even more factory production.
- 11. New machines made it possible to produce more goods at a lower ________, attracting eager buys.
- 12. The ___________ provided a boost to American industries due to the British blockade cutting off foreign supplies for Americans.
- 13. Invented the cotton gin.
- 15. Definition: A person who enters a new country to settle there.
- 18. Definition: Invested money.
- 20. Definition: Creating new ways of doing things.
- 21. Definition: A device that sends electrical signals along a wire to communicate with others.
- 22. Groups that led workers to organize for an improvement in conditions in the workplace.
- 23. Cotton was the South’s most profitable ________.
- 24. Women and children hired in the mills because they were cheap labor and were willing to work in dangerous conditions for economic freedom.
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- 1. Enslaved African Americans had no ________ at all.
- 2. Definition: Cotton plantations extended in a belt from South Carolina to Texas.
- 3. Definition: A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
- 5. Definition: Wealthy planter family owned 50 or more enslaved workers and made huge amounts of money from cotton.
- 8. Definition: Tools that make use of advanced knowledge.
- 9. Definition: Movement of the population from rural areas to cities.
- 14. Invented the electric motor.
- 16. Because the South relied on ___________, most of the industry in the South existed around the needs of an agrarian society.
- 17. Definition: A person who invests in a business to make profit.
- 19. Southern states passed laws known as __________ to keep enslaved African Americans from either running away or rebelling.