Question | Answer |
What were the 4 effects of the Cotton Gin? | More cotton, more slavery, western movement/more industry in North, Planter controlled society |
What were the 4 common factors in most slaves lives? | Work, Religion, Resistance, Family |
What were the 4 new innovations? | Lowell mills, factory system, interchangeable parts, erie canal |
Who invented the Cotton Gin? | Eli Whitney |
Who invented the Mechanical Reaper? | Cyrus McCormick |
Who invented the Steel Plow? | John Deere |
Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
Who first successfully used the steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
Who came up with Interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney |
When was the Cotton Gin invented? | 1793 |
What were the 4 parts of southern society and which was the largest? | Planters, non-slave-owning whites (largest group), fee blacks, slaves. |
6 Factors increasing Nationalism | War 1812, American System, SC cases, new boundaries, Era of Good Feelings, Transportation |
2 Factors increasing Sectionalism | Economic differences, Expansion of Slavery |
Missouri Compromise | by Henry Clay, Maine come in as a free state, Missouri a slave state, no slavery above 36'30 |
Lowell Mills | Textile mills in Mass. that employed mainly young girls who lived at the factory sight |
Nationalism | Loyalty to your nation |
Sectionalism | Loyalty to your section or state |
American System | Henry Clay plan--Tariff, National Bank, Transportation |
Erie Canal | New York waterway between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Improve transportation between North and West |
James Monroe | 5th President-issues Monroe Doctrine and president during Era of Good Feelings |
Monroe Doctrine | 1823-America warn Europe to stay out of Western Hemisphere and they will stay out of European affairs. |
Racism | Economically based, begins in the era of colonization, supported by prejudice, supports slavery and later segregation |
Mary Kies | First woman to apply for a US Patent for a new method of weaving thread and straw for hats |
Slave Families | Often split apart by sale of family members |
What was happening in phase 1 of the War of 1812? | Britain was at war with Napoleon |
What was the Hartford Convention? | When Federalist businessmen met in Hartford Conn. and threatened to secede if the US didn't make peace with Britain |
What happened at the Battle of Thames | Tecumseh was killed |
During which battle was the Star Spangled Banner written? | Battle of Fort McHenry (Baltimore) |
What were warhawks | Congressmen from the South and West who encouraged war with the British in 1812 |
What were the results of the war of 1812? | Treaty of Ghent, no land won or lost, New heroes, Nationalism, Industrial revolution to America |
What happened at the Battle of New Orleans? | Americans won decisive victory but after war was over. |
Define Impressment | kidnapping sailors, done by British 1803-1812 |
What were the effects of the factory system in the North | More mills in the Northeast (rapid rivers to use water power) people moving to cities from farms (still only 11% urban) More demand for cotton, more immigration to North, better transportation in North to move goods, rise of labor unions and movement |