Vocabulary for Chapter 14 of The American Pageant, 13th Edition.
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| 109519328 | Samuel Slater | 1768-1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England. | |
| 109519329 | Cyrus McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester | |
| 109519330 | Eli Whitney | An American inventor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Invented the cotton gin, a device for processing raw cotton. | |
| 109519331 | Robert Fulton | American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat (1807). | |
| 111329453 | Samuel F.B. Morse | U.S. artist and inventor: developer of the first successful telegraph in the U.S.; inventor of the most commonly used telegraphic code system. | |
| 111329454 | DeWitt Clinton | United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal | |
| 111329455 | Catharine Beecher | U.S. educator: advocated educational rights for women. | |
| 111329456 | George Catlin | U.S. painter who advocated enviornmental protection | |
| 111329457 | nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. | |
| 111329458 | Cult of domesticity | The idea among middle and upper class white American women during the 1800s that they had to be the center of the domestic sphere and the perfect wives and mothers | |
| 111329459 | factory system | a manufacturing method for a standardized product or products in which fixed capital, raw material, and labor operations are centralized and sophisticated machinery is often used | |
| 111329460 | german forty eighters | German imagrants who came to America after the failed revolutions in Germany | |
| 111329461 | domestic feminism | the beliefe that women had the right to complete freedom within the home | |
| 112443225 | market revolution | a drastic change in the manual labor system originating in south (but was soon moved to the north) and later spread to the entire world. | |
| 112443226 | cotton gin | a machine for separating the fibers of cotton from the seeds. | |
| 112443227 | Clermont | Robert Fulton's first commercial steamboat | |
| 112443228 | Boston Associates | a loosely linked group of investors. They included Nathan Appleton, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Abbott Lawrence, and Amos Lawrence, often related directly or through marriage, they were based in Boston, Massachusetts. By 1845, there were 31 textile companies—located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine—produced one-fifth of all textiles in the United States. | |
| 112443229 | clipper ships | a sailing ship built and rigged for speed, esp. a type of three-masted ship with a fast hull form and a lofty rig, built in the U.S. from c1845, and in Great Britain from a later date, until c1870, and used in trades in which speed was more important than cargo capacity. | |
| 112443230 | Ancient Order of Hibernians | is an Irish Catholic fraternal organization. Its purpose is to act as guards to protect Catholic Churches from anti-Catholic forces in the mid 19th century, and to assist Irish Catholic immigrants, especially those who faced discrimination or harsh coal mining working conditions. | |
| 112521795 | Rendezvous | Each summer traders ventured from St. Louis to a verdant Rocky Mountain valley, made camp, and waited for the trappers and Indians to arrive with beaver pelts to swap for manufactured goods from the East. | |
| 112521796 | Laws of Free Incorporation | Allowed businessemen to create a new corporation without first obtaining a charter from the state legislature. | |
| 112521797 | Scab | a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike, who takes a striking worker's place on the job, or the like. | |
| 112521798 | Commonwealth v. Hunt | in March 1842, Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that unions were legal organizations and had the right to organize a strike. | |
| 112521799 | Tammany Hall | the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. | |
| 112521800 | American Party | prominent from 1853 to 1856, whose aim was to keep control of the government in the hands of native-born citizens: so called because members originally professed ignorance of the party's activities. | |
| 112521801 | John Jacob Astor | U.S. capitalist and fur merchant. | |
| 112521802 | Black forties | term used to describe the 1840s, when the potato famine struck Ireland and caused the mass imigration of Irish to America. | |
| 112521803 | Porkopolis | coined around 1835, when Cincinnati was the country's chief hog packing center, and herds of pigs traveled the streets. | |
| 112521804 | Clinton's Big Ditch | Nickname given to the Eire Canal by the citizens of New York. | |
| 112521805 | Iron Horse | a locomotive. |
