Jacobs-Ch 14
Forging the National Economy
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- Carl Schurz
- anti-slavery and pro-public corruption; elevated political life
- Eli Whitney
- invented Cotton Gin and interchangeable muskets
- John Jacob Astor
- left 30 mil estate at death
- Erie Canal
- linked Great Lakes with Hudson R.
- Potato famine
- rot that killled 2 million Irish because of bad food
- Samuel Morse
- invented morse code and ended Pony Express
- New York
- metropolis
- Samuel Slater
- Father of Factory
- Lancaster Turnpike
- Philly to Lancaster which consisted of a toll
- New Orleans
- Queen of South
- Donald McKay
- head of Boston harbor where clipper ships made
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- west-American writer: "Self-Reliance"
- John Deere
- invented steel plow that broke virgin soil
- Kentucky Bluegrass
- result of cane being burned
- Moses Brown
- slater's backup
- Mark Twain
- roughing it
- DeWitt Clinton
- leader of construction of Erie canal
- National/Cumberland Rd
- Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL
- Isaac Singer
- perfected Sewing machine
- 36
- number of states by 1860
- Cyrus McCormick
- invented mechanical mower-reaper
- Herman Melville
- Captain Ahab
- Morse's historic message
- what hath God wrought?
- NINA
- No Irish Need Apply
- Yellowstone
- 1st National Park (1872)
- Cyrus Field
- stretched cable from Newfoundland to Ireland
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
- labor unions not illegal conspiracies
- German goods
- conestoga wagon, kentucky rifle, christmas tree
- Catharine Beecher
- enticed teaching profession for women
- Van Buren
- established 10 hour work day
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Natty Bumppo
- George Catlin
- proposed creation of national park, getting first one made
- Elias Howe
- invented sewing machine
- New York
- Largest Irish city in the world
- Ancient Order of Hibernians
- secret society in founded in Ireland to fight landlaords
- Kindergarten
- children's garden
- Savannah
- first Naval steamboat
- Chicago
- lord of Midwest-"hog butcher for the world"
- Maria Monk
- Awful Disclosures
- Pony Express
- rapidly carried mail from St Joseph MS to Sacramento
- Robert Fulton
- invented steamboat on Clermont
- Cotton Gin
- 50x more effective than hand-picking