Chapter 9

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What was the Wilderness Road?

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It was blazed by Daniel Boone, and made vehicle be able to cross Cumberland Gap into Kentucky

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What were Conestogas?

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Horse- drawn wagons

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Walton Road?

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A road that went into Tennessee

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What did the Philly Lancaster Turnpike cause?

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A movement for graded and paved roads

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First commercially successful steamboat was the

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Clermont, sent by a Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton

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By bringing two way traffic on the Mississippi,

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Steamboats created a transcontinental market and an agricultural empire that became the nation’s new breadbasket

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The Erie Canal did what?

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Drew eastward much of the Midwestern trade that earlier had been forced to make the long journey down the Ohio and Mississippi down to the Gulf of Mexico

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Erie Cabal also further isolated

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Deep South

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What cooled the canal fever?

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Financial panic of 1837 and subsequent depression

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The railroad gained supremacy because of its

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Speed, carrying capacity, and reliability

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In addition, railroads could work

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Year round

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Perhaps most important, railroads connected what in 18th century had been

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A chaos of local markets into an interconnected national market

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In addition, railroads provided

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New western settlement and increase in farming

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What prompted the clipper boom?

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The lure of Chinese tea

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However, clippers

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Lacked ample cargo space and would give way to steamship

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The national government bought stock in turnpike and canal companies, and after the success of the Erie Canal,

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Extended land grants to several western states for the support of canal projects

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Technological advances helped improve

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Living condition; houses could be larger, better heated, and better illuminated

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Charles Goodyear did what?

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Patented a process for vulcanizing rubber, which made the product stronger and more elastic

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Elias Howe patented his design of

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The sewing machine, improved by Isaac Merritt Stringer

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Samuel F. B. Morse invented the

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Telegraph

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Eli Whitney did what?

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Invented the cotton gin

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The commercial growing of cotton for world markets

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Revitalized the emphasis on plantation slavery

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From mid 1830’s to 1860 cotton had become

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Half of the country’s exports

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Income from the North’s role in handling the cotton trade then provided

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Surpluses for capital investment in new factories and businesses

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National law of 1820, as a result of the panic of 1819

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Reduced the price of federal land

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What was preemption?

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The right of squatters to purchase land at a minimum price

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Graduation is

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The progressive reduction of prices in land that didn't sell immediately

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Preemption Act of 1830

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Squatter could get 160 acres at a minimum price of $1.25 per acre

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Graduation Act of 1854

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Prices of unsold lands were to be lowered in stages over 30 years

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Jethro Wood developed the

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Iron plow

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John Deere invited the

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Steel plow

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Cyrus Hall McCormick developed

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New mechanical seeders that replaced sowing seed by hand

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By reducing the number of farm workers, new agricultural technologies helped send

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Displaced rural laborers to work in factories

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As a result to cheap imported British cloth

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A demand of a tariff was demanded

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The efforts of the American mill owners to gain political assistance initiated a culture of industrial

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Lobbying

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Adam explained in his WEALTH OF NATIONS

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Consumers pay higher prices for imported goods, but also played high prices on domestic goods because local producers take advantage. Tariffs end up insulating American industries from competition

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Why did the North oppose the tariff?

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Because it reduced shipping

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The South opposed it because

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It would provoke Britain and France to provoke tariffs on their crops

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Tariff Bill of 1816

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25 cent per yard duty on imported cloth

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What was the cause of a large amount of single women in NE?

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Men moving westward

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What was the Lowell idea?

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Provided a safe place to work for the girls

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Lowell lost its innocence because of

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Mushrooming growth

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when textile prices and mill wages dropped

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Relations between workers and managers deteriorated, causing strikes

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Cities are a great social achievement because

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Because it allows the share of knowledge and mobilize capital. Allows it to foster innovation and wealth

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What were forms of urban recreation?

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Pervasive drinking and blood sports

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Theaters were the most popular form of

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Indoor entertainment. Women kept at home

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What were blackface minstrel shows?

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It was where whites dressed up as blacks and prevailed racial stereotypes

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1845-54

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Greatest proportional influx of immigrants

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Why did the Irish move to Maerican

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Because of the Irish potato famine

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Most of the Irish arrivals had

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Been tenant farmers, but they had little taste for framework and little money

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Relatively few immigrants went to the

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South because of slavery

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Alexander T. Stewart

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Irish immigrant who became the owner of the nation's largest department store and accumulated vast amount of land in Manhattan

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Why were the Irish oppressed ?

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Because they were catholic

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After becoming citizens the Irish formed

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Powerful voting blocks

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Why did they find a hero in Andrew Jackson?

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They both despised aristocracy, represented the common man

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Irish are important because they spread

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Catholicism

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Germans included a large number of

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Professional people (doctors, lawyers, etc.)

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What religion were Germans?

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Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, agnostic, or atheist

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Germans tended to settle in

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Rural areas

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Ferdinand Schumacher?

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Peddling flaked oatmeal in Ohio and apart of Quaker Oats

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Heinrich Steinweg

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Instrument maker

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Levi Strauss

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Founder of Levi's jeans

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What was some fears with Germans and Irish?

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Germans were forming political radicalism and the Irish were forming ethnic voting blocs

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The Know Nothings demanded

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The exclusion of immigrants and Catholics from public office and the extension of the period of citizenship from 5-21 years

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Anti-Catholic movement subsided when

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Slavey became the focal issue

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Skilled workers in the US organized themselves by

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Individual trades

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Henry Day declared that

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The most important social functions in modern life were the professional skills

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Church groups and civic leaders started

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Private academies