Chapter 14
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- canals
- transport goods steam boat could go up one way and down other of canal
- Irish jobs
- women = kitchen maids men = pick and shovel jobs
- high pressure steam engine
- oliver evans
- telegraph
- samuel morse
- roads
- transportation for goods turnpikes
- Strikes
- 1830's-1840's for higher wages; only 10 hour day; smoke on job;
- Why U.S. didnt like immigrants
- afraid of outbreading; outvoing; overwhelming; took jobs new religons catholic
- Irish controvercy
- americans hated them, black v. irish; began to rise up; very political
- Elias Howe
- 1846 Sewing Machine, United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)
- life on frontier
- malnutrition; poor housing; disease; depression; premature death; isolation; boredom; violence
- German Contributions
- Conestoga wagon; Kentucky riffle; Christmas tree; kindergarten;
- people
- moving west; Europe running out of room 60 mill. left 25 mill came to u.s
- reasons for expansion
- some destroyed land moved west insearch of better soil; good for grazing; fur trade; ill informed; easy to get there; nationalism
- German Immigrants
- 1830-1860 1.5 mill Germans; uprooted farmers political refuges; Wisconsin
- Population statistics in 1850
- half of pop. was under 30; pop. doubled over 25 year; 4th most pop. country
- Irish Immigrants
- under heavy british rule; potato crop failing; flocked to boston and n.y.
- vulconaized rubber
- charles goodyear
- Know nothing party
- also known as the American Party and is a prejudice political party it is anti-Catholic and anti-foreign; secret group "no nothing"
- John Deere
- Steel plow, United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
- Children Workers
- most of industry workers were under 10; mentally blighted; emotionally scared; physcially stunted
- reaper
- cyrus mccormick
- Samuel Slater
- built first textile mill 1791
- Working Families
- smaller, close knit and affectionate; fewer children; considered "brats" because they had more freedoms
- Factory Work
- horrible working conditions, children workers, long hours: now laws against hour; low wages
- Eli Whitney
- United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) and inter changeable parts
- Women Workers
- six days a week 12-13 hours a day spun yarn; weaving cotton; making candles, soap, butter
- steamboat
- robert fulton
- Nativism
- Belief that the United States should be preserved for native-born Americans