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- 2. A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
- 6. A person who invests in a business to make a profit.
- 8. A severe food shortage.
- 10. union, Association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions.
- 12. The refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands are met.
- 15. Whitney, An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
- 16. Allen, Became the first African American licensed to practice law in the United States.
- 17. Slater, An early English-American industrialist known as the “Father of the Industrial Revolution” because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use.
- 19. A skilled worker
- 21. Deere, An American blacksmith and manufacturer who invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
- 22. Party, A political party of 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.
- 24. crops, Crops sold for money at market.
- 26. Revolution, The change from manual production to machine-powered factory production that started in England in the late 18th century and spread to other places and brought a transformation in economy, society, and technology.
- 28. The movement of population from farms to cities.
- 29. The person who created this
- 30. family, A family group that includes grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
- 31. codes, Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.
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- 1. A name for the wealthy planters who made their money from cotton in the mid 1800s.
- 3. Cabot Lowell, An American businessman who was instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States.
- 4. To prepare and work soil for planting and growing crops.
- 5. An American who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants.
- 7. University, First private university owned and run by African Americans.
- 9. An agreement or contract in which a borrower receives money or goods now, with an agreement to repay a greater amount later
- 11. A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
- 13. B. Morse, An American painter and inventor who contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system.
- 14. A period of rapid economic growth.
- 18. Russwurm, Edited Freedom’s Journal, the first African American newspaper.
- 20. parts-, Identical, machine-made parts for a tool or an instrument
- 23. McCormick, An American inventor and businessman who invented the mechanical reaper: a significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming.
- 25. Turner, An enslaved African-American preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free black people in Southampton County, Virginia.
- 27. girls, Young women who worked in the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution.