American yawp chapter 10 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry? Chicago How did railroads transform the American economy? Inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class 00:02 01:23 Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities 1920 By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population? 60% A...

Columbian Exchange The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. Three Sisters corn, beans, squash 00:02 01:23 Matrilineal relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother Pre-Columbian environmental disasters ... Cahokia an ancient settlement of southern Indians, located near present day St. Louis, it serve...

What cleared the way for eastern people to resettle in the deep south? Indian Removal Act of 1830 By 1860, cotton exports made up _______ of all American exports. 60% Which of the following numbers is closest to the number of enslaved people living in the South in 1860? 4 million In the decades before the Civil War, between one-fifth and one-third of all slave marriages were broken up via _______________ Sale or forced migration What was the impact of Nat Turner...