The Market Revolution
What primary change brought on the Market Revolution?
People began to buy and sell goods instead of making them at home.
What was the goal of the National Trades' Union?
to join together people of similar professions in different areas in order to expand their power.
raised money, distributed literature, collected signatures for antislavery petitions.
UNITARIAN
a member of a religious group that emphasizes reason and faith in the individual.
IMMIGRATION
coming to and settling in a country of which one is not a native.
How did the invention of the telegraph support the efficiency and expansion of railways?
The railroads employed the telegraph to keep trains moving regularly and to want engineers of safety hazards.
What prior presidential ideology is cited as heavily influencing the religious reforms of the early 19th century?
Jacksonian Democracy
Identify 3 movements largely supported by women.
Temperance, Abolition, Education, Mental Health, Prison System
ABOLITION
a movement to end slavery.
MANIFEST DESTINY
the 19th-century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.
What 2 inventions supported the agricultural development of the Midwest?
1. John Deere steel plow
2. Cyrus McCormick reaper
What was the primary effect of the Second Great Awakening?
Increased church membership by almost 40% across a 20 year span.
What is the significance of Ohio's Oberlin College?
First co-educational institution in the U.S.
TRANSCENDENTALISM
a philosophical and literary movement in the 1800's that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
AMERICAN SYSTEM
a pre-Civil War set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy by means of protective tariffs, a national bank, and such internal improvements as the development of a transportation system.
How did the introduction of machinery change the workplace?
new machines allowed unskilled workers to perform the tasks that once had taken the effort of trained artisans.
What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?
to encourage black emigration back to Africa.
What was the result of Catherine Beecher's national survey of women's health?
MARKET REVOLUTION
the major change in the U.S. economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves.
IMPRESSMENT
the forcible seizure of men for military service.
What caused the Irish Immigration between 1845 and 1854?
Irish fled their homeland after a disease on potatoes cause the Great Potato Famine and led to mass starvation.
Although both abolitionists, how did the ideas of Garrison and Frederick differ?
Garrison called for abolition at any cost, Frederick wanted abolition through non-violence.
What was the outcome of the Seneca Falls Convention?
a resolution calling for women to have the right to vote.
FREE ENTERPRISE
the economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production.
JUDICIAL REVIEW
a Supreme Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.