Industrial Revolution Terms
Money that a person has after paying for necessities.
What is disposible income?
Money used to start growing a business.
Whast is capital?
Invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
A nickname given to the secret deal made during the election fo 1824 for poltical power.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Choosing not to do something, such as drinking
What is abstinence?
Amount of people that live in a specific location.
What is population density?
Groups of workers that fight for better benefits, salaries and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Investor in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This court case established the fact that the federal government is more powerful than state governments.
What is the case, McCulloch v Marylnad?
People trying to create a perfect society
What is a Utopian community?
A written document that permits doing something such as starting a company.
What is a charter?
A system where people can start and run businesses without government interference.
What is capitalism?
Made cars more afforable by using assembly lines.
Who is Henry Ford?
This case gave the federal govenment to control trade between states.
What is Gibbons v Ogden?
A secret system that helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Making goods in large amounts using machinery.
What is manufacturing?
Paper money
What are bank notes?
Invested the sewing machine
Who is Elias Howe?
The decision in this case prevented from interfering with private instutions and contracts in the U.S.
What is Dartmouth V Woodward?
A movement to get people to stop drinking alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
An economic system where individuals and companies own the means of production and can benefit with profits.
What is capitalism?
When things are hard to find, prices go up; when things are easy to aaquire prices go down.
What is the law of supply and demand?
Started the first textile mill in America.
Who is Sam Slater?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the timeframe including 1819?
Who is Chief Justice John Marshall?
A belief that people should connect with nature and trust their own feelings and ideas.
What is transcendentalism?