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8 cards·by claireoliviaxo
How did the United States win a large share of the world's sea trade in the 1840s and 1850s?
The United States utilized the clipper ship.
Southern states passed slave codes to
discourage slaves from either running away or rebelling.
By the late 1840s, many of the workers in northern factories were
immigrants from irrlend and germany
The largest group of southern whites was
small farmers
Cotton planters needed new land because
they wanted to plant more cotton
The telegraph allowed businesses in different parts of the country to
exchange information quickly
Most enslaved African Americans worked
as field hands on cotton plantations.
In 1846, who patented the first sewing machine
Elias Howe