Chapter 13

What invention helped farmers cultivate the mid-west

• Mechanical reaper

• steel-tipped plow

• thresher

• tractor

What innovation made cultivating wheat profitable

• Reaper

• Steel-tipped plow

• Steamboat

• Thresher

Who invented the sewing machine

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

• Elias Howe

• John Morse

What connected the midwest and east during by 1860

• Rivers

• roads

• Steam-powered ships

• railroads

What caused the Irish to immigrate to the US between the 1820-1860

• Famine

• Discrimination

• Persecution

• Plague

Most slaves worked as what on the plantation

• Domestic work

• Field Hand

• Blacksmith

• Carpenter

The demand from cotton from the south came from mills in?

• Asia

• Mexico

• The North

• Europe

Who led a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion against slaveholders in 1831

• Frederick Douglas

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• Daniel Christian

With other workers of the same skills, workers formed what?

• Trade Unions

• Prejudice

• Strikes

• Famines

What did the thriving economy go the South depend on?

• Tabacco

• Rice

• Slavery

• Railroad