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AP Us History 1790-1860 Chapter 14
AP Us History 1790-1860 Chapter 14
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10th Grade
11/09/2009

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Irish and German immigrants
Definition
Irish were poor hated factory workers
GErmans were westward farmers
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Nativism
Definition
Love occupier
Hate Immigrants
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Know Nothing Party
Definition
A party largely based around hatred of the Catholic Irish
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Samuel Slater
Definition
Invented the cotton spinner, actually stole it from britain
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Gotton Gin
Definition
Separated Seeds from cotton
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American System of Manufacturing
Definition
Interchangable parts.
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Telegraph
Definition
The telegraph
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Rising Industrialization
Definition
people realized that it would be good for the country to industrialize. With an influx of immigrants and inventions and transportation fixes, the US became a more industrial place
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Commonwealth v. Hunt
Definition
Made labor unions legal
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Lowell mills/girls
Definition
Mills that were run by unmarried women and it was in bad condition
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"Cult of Domesticity"
Definition
Was where there was "2 sphere", men did "outside Home" stuff and women did "in the home" stuff
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McCormaick's reaper
Definition
It cut the crops using a horse a horedrawn reaper
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Transportation revolution
Definition
-railroads
-canals
-roads

Overall made transportating goods, especially those that are crops more accessible to everybody
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Technological inventions
Definition
Sowing maching
Steamboat
All the others I already listed
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Erie Canal
Definition
Opened up goods from the northwest up to the new york city. Really just a man made river from the eire lake to hudson river
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Market Revolution
Definition
Crops can be transported around
Everyone is now in market
People are making less and buying more
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