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Workhouse
In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of reporting that "we have erected within our borough a workhouse to sett poor people to work -
Canal
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Rhode Island System
The Rhode Island System refers to a system of mills, complete with small villages and farms, ponds, dams, and spillways first developed by Samuel Slater and his brother John Slater -
Fugitive Slave Act
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Edmund Ruffin Reform
-Virginia planter
-Promoted the use of Marl
-Calcium rich seashell deposits
-Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil
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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney (1765–1825) applied for a patent of his cotton gin on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807. -
Gabriel Prossers rebellion
50 armed slaves around Richmond
Failed to gain control of a main road to Richmond
Someone tipped off the white authorities
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Steamboat
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S or PS, however these designations are most often used for Steamships -
Asylum
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German Coast Uprising
Several hundred, poorly armed, slaves march on New Orleans
U.S. Army troops and state militia stop the march
More than 60 slaves died
-The heads of the leaders were posted on poles along the Mississippi River as a warning. -
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The Temperance Movement
The Temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize alcohol intoxication, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition. -
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Abolitionism
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism is a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. -
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Immediatism
A policy or practice of gaining a desired end by immediate action; specifically :a policy advocating the immediate abolition of slavery. -
Erie Canal Completed
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. Originally, it ran 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. -
Sabatarian Movement
Reform organization founded in 1828 by congregationalist and presbyterian ministers that lobbied for an end to the delivery of mail on Sunday's and other Sabbath violations. The movement to lessen the annual consumption of alcohol in America. -
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Slavery declined in the upper south
The proportion of southern families owning slaves declined from 36 percent in 1830 to 25 percent in 1860. At the same time, slavery was sharply declining in the upper South. ... But the most important threat to slavery came from abolitionists, who denounced slavery as immoral. -
Nat Turner's rebellion
-Turner, a literate field hand, believed that he saw signs from heaven calling for vengeance against white oppressors
-Led a small band of followers
-Killed his owner the first day
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Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. -
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Battle of the Alamo
he Battle of the Alamo was a 13 day siege at a mission in San Antonio that was fought between February 23, 1836 – March 6, 1836 by Mexican forces of about 4000, under President General Santa Anna, against a handful of 180 American rebels fighting for Texan independence from Mexico. -
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Oregon Trail Most Active
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California. The Oregon Trail passed through what is now Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho. -
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The Mormon Migration
The great Mormon migration of 1846-1847 was but one step in the Mormons' quest for religious freedom and growth. The Mormon religion, later known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was founded by Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830 in Fayette, New York. -
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The Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
"Know Nothing" Party Active
The Know-Nothing Party, also known as the American Party, was a prominent United States political party during the late 1840s and the early 1850s. The American Party originated in 1849. Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church. -
The Gadsden Purchase
he Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
"Know Nothing" Party
The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the "Know Nothing" movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, which resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory. -
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Waltham System
The Waltham-Lowell system was a labor and production model employed in the United States, particularly in New England, during the early years of the American textile industry in the early 19th century. -
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The Cult of Domesticity
The culture of domesticity or cult of true womanhood is a term used by some historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain. -
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The Benevolent Empire
he Benevolent Empire was part of a 19th-century religious movement in the United States. Various protestant denominations developed missionary organizations in order to Christianize citizens of the United States and the world, and to create a Christian nation. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections.