A New National Identity
School of art reflected national pride and appreciation for the American landscape during the 1800s
What is the Hudson River School?
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines for production and manufacturing
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This crop dominated Southern plantations in the 1800s
What is cotton?
This disaster in Europe caused many Irish to move to the United States in the mid‑1800s.
These two men, John Deere and Cyrus McCormick, made major improvements in this type of technology
What is farm equipment?
Eli Whitney designed this machine, which removed seeds from cotton and helped expand both the cotton industry and slavery
What is the cotton gin?
This “transformation” was a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel.
What is the transportation revolution?
About this fraction of white southerners owned slaves
What is one-third (1/3 or 33 percent)?
These poorly designed and unsafe apartment buildings housed many city dwellers.
What are Tenements?
Eli Whitney’s idea of interchangeable parts helped lead to this, the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
What is mass production?
This American writer became famous for stories like “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Who is Washington Irving?
The types of groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions for their members
What are Trade Unions?
These laws prevented enslaved people from learning to read and write.
What are slave codes?
This nativist political party opposed immigration to the United States.
Who are the Know Nothing Party?
Tom Thumb was an early train engine built by this inventor
Who is Peter Cooper?
James Fenimore Cooper wrote this novel about life on the American frontier.
What is Last of the Mohicans?
This system of hiring in this state's textile mills employed entire families.
What is the Rhode Island System?
He led a major slave revolt in Virginia in 1831
Who is Nat Turner?
These thinkers believed that people could rise above material things in life
Who are transcendentalists?
He invented the telegraph, a device that sent messages over wires.
Who is Samuel B. Morse?
This style of architecture became popular in the United States because it embraced the democratic ideas of this nation.
What is Greek Revival architecture?
This labor system in Massachusetts textile mills employed young, unmarried women for low wages.
What is the Lowell System
Free African Americans in the South often faced discrimination, including being blocked from doing this basic act of citizenship.
What is voting?
These communities tried to live apart from others and create a perfect society
What are Utopian Communities
Robert Fulton built this famous early steamship
What is the Clermont?