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| 1836458897 | cult of domesticity | idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands | 0 | |
| 1836458898 | turnpike | A road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it | 1 | |
| 1836458899 | Irish contributions | policemen and firemen, corn beef, private schools, religion, beer | 2 | |
| 1836458900 | Molly Mcquires | These were a group of Pennsylvania Coal Miners who, in the mid-1870's adopted a new technique in dealing with worker-management disputes, namely the use of terrorism. Members of this secret group used arson, sabotage & destruction of property in order to intimidate Mine operators. Eventually their members were arrested and tried. | 3 | |
| 1836458901 | German contributions | Conestoga wagon; Kentucky riffle; Christmas tree; kindergarten; | 4 | |
| 1836458902 | Lowell system | Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around the mills | 5 | |
| 1836458903 | trans-Allegheny region | The Nations Breadbasket; planted corn and raised crops | 6 | |
| 1836458904 | know nothing party | Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party. | 7 | |
| 1836458905 | Cumberland (national) road | The first highway built by the federal government. It was a major overland shipping route and an important connection between the North and the West. | 8 | |
| 1836458906 | order of the star spangled banner | The noisier American "Nativists" rallied for political action. In 1849 they formed this, which soon developed into the formidable American, or "Know-Nothing," party—a name derived from its secretiveness. | 9 | |
| 1836458907 | Elias Howe | American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home. | 10 | |
| 1836458908 | commonwealth v. hunt | (1842) a landmark ruling of the MA Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers. | 11 | |
| 1836458909 | Robert Fulton | 1765-1815) American engineer and inventor, he built the first commercially successful full-sized steamboat, the Clermont, which lead to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and people | 12 | |
| 1836458910 | Eli Whitney | An American inventor who developed the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged | 13 | |
| 1836458911 | nativism | An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics. | 14 | |
| 1836458912 | Erie canal | "Clinton's Big Ditch" that transformed transportation and economic life across the Great Lakes region from Buffalo to Chicago | 15 | |
| 1836458913 | Samuel slater | "Father of the Factory System" in America; escaped Britain with the memorized plans for the textile machinery; put into operation the first spinning cotton thread in 1791. | 16 |
