APUSH Notes 6
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- Joseph Smith
- founder of the Mormons
- Hudson River School
- style of art that has a form of landscape that emphasizes Romanticism
- 2/3
- cotton accounted for - of US exports
- Corporations
- largest growing form of business it has the same rights and legalities as a person but not as much risk
- Poor Whites
- underclass and lived worse than slaves but socially ahead of slaves
- Immigrants
- mostly British, German, and South Irish
- National Road
- only great federally funded transportation project, funded by sale of western lands
- Problems of Urbanization
- epidemics, overcrowding
- Utopians
- tried to reach perfection: Brook Farm, New Harmony, Oneida Community
- Harriet Tubman
- Underground Railroad, led over 300 people to freedom
- North produced more than
- 2/3 manufactured goods
- Romanticism
- belief in goodness of man, optimistic
- Planter Class
- large slave owners who formed a minority but dominated political and economic power
- Lowell System
- dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor
- Yeoman Farmers
- most common, subsistence farmers, worked in fields with slaves
- American System started
- national economy, national identity, spread of mail and media, spread of new ideas
- Eerie Canal
- opened up the West and allowed Westerners to get goods previously unattainable
- Brigham Young
- migrated the Mormons out of US and into Utah
- Samuel Slater
- brought over from Britain the idea of a textile factory and one building for all processes
- Eli Whitney
- cotton gin and interchangeable parts
- Robert Fulton
- man who made first steamboat
- Prosser, Vesey, Turner
- all held slave uprisings where they killed their masters and other plantation owners
- Black Codes
- slaves weren't allowed to read, write, be educated, or marry
- Funding for Roads
- state and private companies