american pageant chapters 15 and 16
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| 1821993741 | Samuel Slater | father of the American factory system | 0 | |
| 1821993742 | Cyrus McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884) | 1 | |
| 1821993743 | Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) | 2 | |
| 1821993744 | Carl Schurz | a relentless foe of slavery and public corruption | 3 | |
| 1821993745 | Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat | 4 | |
| 1821993746 | Samuel Morse | United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) | 5 | |
| 1821993747 | Dewitt Clinton | United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828) | 6 | |
| 1821993748 | Catharine Beecher | Urged women to enter the teaching profession. | 7 | |
| 1821993749 | industrial revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. | 8 | |
| 1821993750 | limited liability | the liability of a firm's owners for no more than the capital they have invested in the firm | 9 | |
| 1821993751 | Transportation revolution | Began with the improvements in road construction and expansion of canal systems. | 10 | |
| 1821993752 | nativism | a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones | 11 | |
| 1821993753 | cult of domesticity | idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands | 12 | |
| 1821993754 | cotton gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers | 13 | |
| 1821993755 | clermont | name of Fulton's steam engine, nicknamed Fulton's Folly | 14 | |
| 1821993756 | Boston Associates | 15 Boston families that dominated textile, railroad, insurance, and banking industries | 15 | |
| 1821993757 | clipper ships | small fast light ships with huge sails- romantic | 16 | |
| 1821993758 | ancient order of hibernians | Semisecret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in American. | 17 | |
| 1821993759 | molly maguire | Name for a member of the Irish miners' union in the Pennsylvania coal districts between 1860 and 1880. | 18 | |
| 1821993760 | general incorporation | allows corporations to be formed without a charter from the legislature. It was the idea that a person can get a charter for a business to start very easily by following a few easy steps. | 19 | |
| 1821993761 | pony express | express mail carried by relays of riders on horseback | 20 | |
| 1821993762 | commonwealth vs. hunt | Declared that labor unions were lawful organizations and that the strike was a lawful weapon | 21 | |
| 1821993763 | tammany hall | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism | 22 | |
| 1821993764 | order of star spangled banner | secret society that was anti-Irish | 23 | |
| 1821993765 | Isaac Singer | improved the sewing machine | 24 | |
| 1821993766 | Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo | 25 | |
| 1821993767 | Cumberland Road | first federal road project, construction of which began in 1815; ran from Cumberland, Maryland to present day W. Virginia | 26 | |
| 1821993768 | George Catlin | a painter who was among the first to advocate the preservation of nature as a national policy | 27 | |
| 1821993769 | canal era | Erie canal connected the U.S. and made NY ended in 1850 | 28 | |
| 1821993770 | Dorthea Dix | Tireless reformer, who worked mightily to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. Appointed superintendant of women nurses for the Union forces. | 29 |
