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.