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APUSH Vocab 14
chapter 14 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Samuel Slater | Samuel Slater has been called both the "Father of American Industry" and the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution." Slater built several successful cotton mills in New England and established the town of Slatersville, Rhode Island. |
| Cyrus McCormick | of Virginia was responsible for liberating farm workers from hours of back-breaking labor by introducing the farmers to his newly invented mechanical reaper in July, 1831. |
| Eli Whitney | the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton, designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. |
| Robert Fulton | who successfully built and operated a submarine (in France) in 1801, before turning his talents to the steamboat |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | proved that signals could be transmitted by wire. He used pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper - the invention of Morse Code |
| DeWitt Clinton | New York City Mayor, a major proponent of a canal and supported efforts for its construction. become governor of the state and was able to thus oversee aspects of the canal construction, which later became known as "Clinton's Ditch" by some |
| Catharine Beecher | sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| George Catlin | fascinated with Indians in the early 1800s and traveled extensively throughout North America so he could document them on canvas |
| nativism | a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants |
| Cult of Domesticity | ideal placed upon nineteenth women of how they should conduct their lives. The Cult of True Womanhood is a phrase that has since come into regular usage in historical studies of this time, and refers to the ideology of a woman's place in society |
| factory system | each worker created a separate part of the total assembly of a product, thus increasing the efficiency of factories. |
| German Forty Eighters | Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe. In Germany, the Forty-Eighters favored unification of the country, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human rights |
| domestic feminism | the belief that women had the right to complete freedom within the home |
| Market Revolution | drastic change in the manual labor system originating in south (but was soon moved to the north) and later spread to the entire world. |
| cotton gin | device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. |
| Clermont | steamboat, was then the butt of jokes of passersby, who nicknamed it "Fulton's Folly." |
| Boston Associates | the group of Boston investors that joined with Lowell |
| clipper ships | were able to shave 47 days off the passage from New York to San Francisco |
| Ancient Order of Hibernians | Irish Catholic fraternal organization. Members must be Catholic and either Irish born or of Irish descent |
| Rendezvous | based fur trapping empire |
| Laws of Free Incorporation | first passed in New York 1848 meant that businessmen could create |
| Scab | strikebreakers, and employ thugs to beat labor organizers |
| Commonwealth v. Hunt | was a landmark legal decision issued by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions. |
| Tammary Hall | powerful political machine that ran New York City. It began modestly as a patriotic and social club established in New York in the years following the American Revolution, when such organizations were commonplace in American cities. |
| Know Nothing Party | A political party which emerged in the United States circa 1849. The party's central premise was an objection to immigration, particularly immigration by Irish Catholics |
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