American Industrial Revolution
System of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell, Chicopee, and other sites in Massachussessettes and New Hampshire; women had greater independence and better living conditions.
What is the Waltham-Lowell System?
American inventor and industrialist, he invented the mechanical reaper and harvesting machine that quickly cut down wheat.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
The first federally funded road in United States History was built between 1811 and 1834. It was constructed primarily to promote trade and communication with the Old Northwest.
What is the National Road?
This family was responsible for improving and inventing many technological innovations, such as a machine for twisting worsted woolen yarn to give it an especially smooth service, improving the efficiency of waterwheels and, eventually, locomotives.
Who were the Sellars?
A broad-ranging campaign of moral and institutional reforms inspired by evangelical Christian ideals and endorsed by upper-middle-class men and women in 1820 and 1830.
What is Benevolent Empire?
Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages, hours, benefits, and control of the workplace; resent low wages and hours, which restricted family life and educational opportunities.
What are unions?
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse Code. The telegraph was a communication device that transmitted signals over a wire, allowing messages to be sent over long distances in a short time.
Who was Samuel Morse?
Phrase coined by Henry Clay to refer to these individuals as "enterprising men who give whatever wealth they possess by being patient and diligent. Benjamin Franklin is a great example of one!
What is a self-made man?
A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie; brought prosperity to the Great Lakes region; its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philly and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
What is the Erie Canal?
Movement to preserve the sabbath as a holy day. These reformers believed that declining observance by Christians of the sabbath was the greatest threat to religion in the United States.
What are Sabatarrian values?
An economy based on coal and metal that began to emerge in the 1830s, as manufacturers increasingly ran machinery fashioned from metal with coal-burning stationary steam engines rather than with water power; fabricated metal products.
What is mineral-based economy?
Important emigre mechanic, reproduced Arkwrite's innovations in merchant Moses Brown's cotton mill in Providence, Rhode Island.
Who was Samuel Slater?
Between 1820 and 1860, these rose from two hundred to four thousand in a year because of technological innovations.
What are patents?
Invented the steamboat in 1807, adding crucial flexibility to the Mississippi basin's river-based transportation system.
Who was Robert Fulton?
The doctrine of free will that was the central message of Presbyterian minister Charles Grandison Finney. It was particularly attractive to members of the new middle class, who had accepted personal responsibility for their lives.
What is moral free agency?
An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers, men, and women who owned their shops or farms, defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by independent workers and citizens.
What is artisan republicanism?
United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil. He did not invent green paint!
Who was John Deere?
The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions; reflected the increased output of farms and factories, the activities of traders and merchants, and creation of methods of transportation.
What is the Market Revolution?
Year the Erie Canal was completed.
What is 1825?
A society invigorated by evangelical Protestants in 1832 that set out to curb the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Who was the American Temperance Society?
Came to the United States between 1790 and 1860 as merchants and manufacturers reorganized work routines, built factories, and exploited a wide range of natural resources.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Built a simple machine in 1793 that separated the seeds in a cotton boll from the delicate fibers, work previously done slowly by hand; called the cotton gin. He also built machine tools that could rapidly produce interchangeable musket parts.
Who was Eli Whitney?
New class that emerged between 1830 and 1857 was made up of farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, and traders that reflected a dramatic rise in prosperity.
What is middle class?
This court case voided a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City. The decision also prevented local or state monopolies (tariffs) from impeding the flow of goods, people, and news across the nation.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?
Anti-foreign sentiment in the United States that fueled anti-immigrant and immigration-restriction policies against the Irish and Germans in the 1840s and the 1850s and against other ethnic immigrants in subsequent decades.
What is the Nativist Movement?