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Chapter FORTEEN!!

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Cult of domesticity
a widespread cultural creed that that glorified the customary functions of the homemaker.
Robert Fulton
Inventor of the steam engine.
The Clermont
The first steamboat that churned steadily fromNew York City up to Albany.
Market economy
an economy of national networks of industry and commerce.
Industrial revolution
the spread of factories and developement of various machines that improved manufacturing industry.
Isaac Singer
perfected the sewing machine.
Deere's Steel Plow
invented by JOhn Deere allowed for the plowing to be done quickly and efficiently being able to be pulled by horses.
Molly Maguires
a shadowy Irish miners' union that rocked Pennsylvania coal districts in 1860s and 1870s.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author of "Self Reliance"
Commonwealth v. Hunt
the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that labor unions were not illegal provided that their methods were "honorable and peaceful"
Elias Howe
inventor of the sewing machine,
Know-Nothing Party
developed from the Order of the Star Spangled Banner that oppossed the arrival of the immigrants.
Dewitt Clinton
Planner of the Erie Canal.
George Caitlin
a painter and a student of Native American Life who proposede the creation of a national park.
Lancaster Turnpike
broad, hard surfaced highway that thrust 62 miles westward from Philadelphia to Lancaster where a tollgate allowed those who payed for the pikes to turn to let you through.
National (Cumberland) Road
highway that strecthed from Cumberland to in Maryland to Vandalia in Illinois a distance of 591 miles.
Factory system
the economy based on maunfacturing goods using machines in factories.
Rendezvous system
traders would meet an agreed destination to trade goods with each other.
The Savannah
a pioneer American steamer that crept across the Atlantic in 1819.
Ecological imperialism
the agressive and often heedless exploitation of the West's natural bounty.
Samuel Slater
"The Father of the Factory System" memorized the plans for machinery in Britain and introduced them into America.
McCormick's Mower-Reaper
horse drawn machine that cleared land for farming quickly.
Samuel Morse
invented the telegraph that allowed communication over long distances.
Eli Whitney
creator of the cotton gin and the mass production of firearms.

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