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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Led to 19th century expansion of slavery

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Cotton gin

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Inventor of cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

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Preemption Act

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Stated squatters could stake out claims ahead of land surveyors and later get 160 acres at $1.25/acre
Recognized a practice already in action

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Graduation Act

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Prices of unsold lands would go down in stages till they were worth $12.5/acre

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John Deere

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Inventor of the steel plow

1837

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Cyrus McCormick

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Inventor of primitive grain reaper

1831

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Steamboat

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Could travel both upstream and downstream

Developed into Americas first inland freight and passenger service network

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Robert Fulton

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Put first steamboats into service with Robert L Livingston

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Clipper Ships

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Ocean sailing ships that cut travel time in half

Route around Cape Horn was fastest way to travel bt coasts of US

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Erie Canal

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Most important and profitable of barge canals
Stretched from Buffalo to Albany
Connected Great Lakes to east coast
Made NY nations largest port

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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Inventor of the telegraph

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Charles Goodyear

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Inventor of process for vulcanizing rubber, made it more elastic and stronger

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Elias Howe

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Inventor of the sewing machine

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Minstrel Show

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Entertainment when people would make fun of black culture

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Stephen Foster

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Composer of popular minstrel show tunes
Oh Susanna, My
Old Kentucky Home

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Nativism

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Anti immigrant and anti catholic feeling

Largest group New Yorks Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, expanded to form the Know-nothing party

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Know-Nothing party

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Nativism, anti catholic third party in reaction to large-scale German and Irish immigration
Only presidential candidate was Millard Fillmore

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Commonwealth v Hunt

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Landmark ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions

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Guild system

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Hierarchy of the master craftsmen, journeymen, and apprentices

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John Jacob Astor

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Self made millionaire, richest man in America when he died

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