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Chapter 12 Extra Flashcards

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Phineas Miller

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Overseer at Mulberry Grove plantation

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Eli Whitney

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Invented cotton gin

Graduate of Yale

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Catharine Greene

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Wife of Nathaniel Greene
Lived on mulberry grove plantation
Asked Whitney to invent cotton gin

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Cotton gin

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Invented 1792 by Eli Whitney
Contributed to rise in slave trade between coastal south and southwest
Cotton production tied old southwest to coastal southeast in trade

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Came up with idea of interchangeable parts

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Eli Whitney

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Land Law 1820

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Reduced price of federal land

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Preemption

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Right of squatters to buy land at minimum price

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Graduation

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Progressive reduction of the price on land not selling

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Preemption Act of 1830

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Squatters could claim land before surveyors at minimum price

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Graduation Act of 1854

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Prices of unsold land decreases for 30 years till it hits minimum price

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Invented iron plow

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Jethro Wood

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Developed steel plow

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John Deere

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12
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Developed steel and chilled iron plow

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John Oliver

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13
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Invented primitive grain reaper

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Cyrus McCormick

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Effects of inventions

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Larger number of agricultural products
Lower prices
Higher farmer income
Higher farmer standard of living

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1796 Wilderness Road

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Opened to wagons and stagecoach

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Philidelphia-Lancaster Turnpike

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1794

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National Road

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Wheeling, VA to Ohio River to Columbus (NW) to Vandalia (IL)

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First commercially successful steamboat

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Clermont
Ran up Hudson to Albany
Sent by Fulton and Livingston
1807

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First steamboat trip

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New Orleans to Pittsburg

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Result of steamboating

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Mississippi River Valley becomes huge export center, new breadbasket

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Effects of Eerie Canal

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Trade drawn to the east instead of the gulf
Tied together W and E, isolated the south
Brought money to New York

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Trains

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Usually went from east to west, divided north and south

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Black Ball Line

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Shipping between New York and England

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Rainbow

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First clipper ship

Expiring Chinese tea leaves

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Flying Cloud

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Ship between New York to San Francisco

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26
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What industry got tax reductions from govt

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Railroads

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27
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Where did natl govt buy stock

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Turnpike and canal companies

28
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Congress reduced the tariff on…

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Iron

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Senator Stephen A Douglas

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Suggested a land grant to support a North South line between Chicago and Alabama
Subsidized building of IL central and Mobile and OH Railroads

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Joseph Henry

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Princeton physicist contributed to telegraph and electric motors
Head of smithsonian institution

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Samuel FB Morse

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Invents telegraph

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Charles Goodyear

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Vulcanized rubber

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Elias Howe

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Sewing machine

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What invention actually slowed factory process?

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Sewing machine, made for individual use not for factories

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When was the first intercity telegraph message sent?

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1844 between Baltimore and Washington

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Putting out

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Raw materials were sold to be made into stuff at home

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Samuel Slater

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1789 water powered spinning machine
First textile mill
Pawtucket, RI

38
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First factory where spinning and weaving under same roof

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Boston Manufacturing Company
Formed by Boston Associates
Introduced Lowell system

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Lowell System

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Worked for a while where women would work under paternal supervision
Relations between workers and managers decline when they want to make more money

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System that promised paternalism by hiring entire families in New England

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Family system
Rhode Island system
Fall River system

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Cities were…

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1) centers of administration
2) centers of trade and distribution
3) center of manufacturing

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5 largest cities were…

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New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, almost could count New Orleans

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First city to hit 1 million people

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New York

44
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Packet line boats

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Transport immigrants cheaply

45
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Coffin ships

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Transport Irish immigrants

46
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Irish Immigrants

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Joined internal improvements
Congregated in eastern cities
Poorest and most wretched pop

47
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Alexander T Stewart

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Irish

Largest department store

48
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Michael Cudahy

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Head of Cudahy packing company

49
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Victor Herbert

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Renowned composer

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Irish tended to vote

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For Jacksonian democrats

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German immingrants

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Came after large Irish migration

Culture was sustained

52
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Ferdinand Schumacher

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Flaked oatmeal

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Heinrich Steinweg

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Piano maker

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Levi Strauss

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Jewish Taylor

Levi jeans

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Samuel Slater

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Transported British technology ideas from B to A

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Lyman Beechers

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Anti catholic sermons
President of lane Theological Seminary
Invited mob in cinncinnati to burn Ursuline covenant

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Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

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3rd political party

Members never voted of foreign or catholic candidate

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Trade unions wanted

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Protective tariff
Insurance benefits
Regulations to improve conditions
Quality control

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Commonwealth v Hunt

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MA supreme judicial court ruling forming trade union not illegal
Workers can strike

60
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Philadelphia Workingmens Party

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Balance of power in city council

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Locofocos

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NYC opponent Tammany Hall wanted free public education and to stop imprisoned debtors
10-hour workday

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Establishment of 10 hour work day

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By Jackson @ Naval Shipyard

Van Buren extended to govt

63
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Mechanissllien Laws

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Protect workers from nonpayment

64
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Shoemakers strike

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Left job when request for higher pay vetoed

20,000 went on strike in New England and won

65
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Western Reserve School of Medicine

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Henry Day

66
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Fastest growing vocation

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Teaching

67
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Harriet Hunt

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Self-taught physician

68
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Elizabeth Blackwell

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Admitted to Geneva Medical College
Founded NY Infirmary for women and children
Worked at London school of medicine

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