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APUSH Chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Father of the Factory System." Learned of textile machinery when working in British factories, escaped to the US, and built the first cotton thread spinner. | Samuel Slater |
| Invented the mechanical mower-reaper to harvest grains such as wheat. | Cyrus McCormick |
| Built a cotton gin, making the South flourish and expanded "King Cotton" westward. Also created the "interchangeable part." | Eli Whitney |
| Credited with building the first steamboat, the Clermont. | Robert Fulton |
| Invented the telegraph. | Samuel F.B. Morse |
| New York governor who pushed for national parks and later acheived it with Yellowstone in 1872. Painted western scenes and Native Americans. | George Catlin |
| New York governor who built the Erie Canal using only state money. | DeWitt Clinton |
| Was the leading proponent who pushed for women to enter into teaching. | Catharine Beecher |
| Older Americans are prejudiced against newcomers in jobs, politics, and religion. | nativism |
| An idealization of "home and family" as a space of moral purity protected from the harsher world outside. Centered on the belief that women were responsible for the moral affairs. | Cult of domesticity |
| An establishment for the manufacturing of goods, including buildings and substantial machinery. | factory system |
| 1,000,000 poured in because of crop failures and revolution/war of 1848. More money than Irish, so they bought land in the West. Brought many cultural aspects to the US. | German Forty Eighters |
| Newly assertive role for women. | domestic feminism |
| Industry and businesses were coming into maturity. Encouraged start-ups and changed from "life on the farm" to "life working at a job." | Market Revolution |
| Seperated the fiber from the seed. 50 times more efficient than a person using only hands. Caused the South to expand its cotton production and caused the North to expand its factories. | cotton gin |
| The first steamboat (1807). Made rivers two-way streets, not one-way. South and West would especially draw the benefits. | Clermont |
| One of the earliest investment capital companies formed by fifteen Boston families. | Boston Associates |
| Used to haul cargo to foreign nations, notably China. Long, sleek, and very fast. | clipper ships |
| Established to aid the Irish in finding jobs. | Ancient Order of Hibernians |
| Basis for the fur-trapping empire. People would venture to a Rocky Mountain valley to swap beaver pelts for manufactured goods. | Rendezvous |
| First passed in New York in 1848. Businessmen could create corporations without applying for individual charters from the legislature. | Laws of Free Incorporation |
| Immigrants that would substitute in when the workers would go on strike because they were happy to work for whatever they get. | Scab |
| Legalized labor unions in 1842. | Commonwealth v. Hunt |
| Controlled by Irish immigrants in politics. Located in New York. | Tammany Hall |
| "Know-Nothing" Party. Fed off of fear and sensational stories such as Maria Monk's book "Awful Disclosure." | American Party |
| Fur-trader and real estate speculator who left an estimate $30 million on his death in 1848. | John Jacob Astor |
| Irish immigrants who mainly came to cities like Boston and New York. | Black Forties |
| Cincinatti on the Ohio River. | Porkopolis |
| Erie Canal. It linked the western rivers with the Atlantic Ocean. | Clinton's Big Ditch |
| The only thing that trumped the Erie Canal (railroads). | Iron Horse |
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