Brittany Burgess and Karissa Aubrey
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860
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| 253388908 | Frontier people | ___________ were individualistic, supersitious, and ill-informed of current matters. | |
| 253388909 | George Catlin | ___________ pushed for national parks and later achieved it with Yellowstone in 1872. | |
| 253388910 | double every 25 years | In the mid 1800s, the population continued to... | |
| 253388911 | 33 states | By 1860, the original 13 states now had become... | |
| 253388912 | sewage systems and piped-in water | Poor sanitation encouraged development of... | |
| 253388913 | Irish and Germans | Near the 1850s, millions of ___________ came to the United States. | |
| 253388914 | Irish Potato Famine | The ___________ led to the death of 2 million people and mass movement to the US. | |
| 253388915 | Germans | __________ moved to the US between the 1830s and the 1860s because of crop failures and revolution/war of 1848. | |
| 253388916 | nativists | older Americans who were prejudiced against newcomers in jobs, politics, and religion | |
| 253388917 | The Know-Nothings | __________ was a group formed by nativists who feared that Catholicism challenged Protestantism | |
| 253388918 | cotton gin | a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 | |
| 253388919 | 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. | |
| 253388920 | Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph and Morse code | |
| 261165458 | Commonwealth v. Hunt | Supreme Court Case that legalized unions for peaceful and honorable protest | |
| 261176168 | Women | ________ toiled in factories under poor conditions and worked until marriage, after marriage became houswives | |
| 261176169 | Arranged | _______ died down and marriages due to love become more popular; tied family closer | |
| 261176170 | Families | _______ grew smaller | |
| 261176171 | John Deere | Invented the steel plow that cut through soil and could be pulled by horses | |
| 261176172 | Cryus McCormick | Invented the mechanical mower-reaper to harvest grain | |
| 261176173 | Inventions | ________ boomed agriculture | |
| 261176174 | Lancaster Turnpike | hard road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, PA which brought economic expansion westward | |
| 261176175 | Cumberland Road AKA The national road | was constructed by state and federal money | |
| 261176176 | Robert Fulton | Invented the first steamboat, the Clermont in 1807 | |
| 261176177 | Steam Boats | _______ caused an increase of U.S. trade was no concern for weather and water current | |
| 261176178 | Erie Canal | Shortened the expense and time of transportation | |
| 261176179 | Farmers | ______ were unable to compete in rocky soild of the East,so they went to the west | |
| 262062820 | 1828 | the first railroad in the U.S. was introduced in ____ | |
| 262062821 | Pony Express | Speedy communication standard that lasted two years but was replaced by the telegraph wire | |
| 262062822 | Steamboat | Allowed reverse transport of south to west and served to bind them together | |
| 262062823 | Canals | More____canals led to more trade with East from West | |
| 262062824 | New York | Queen port of the country, replacing New Orleans | |
| 262062825 | Home | The ____ transformed to a place of rest from work. | |
| 262062826 | Economic | As political landscape changed, _________ scene did too. | |
| 262062827 | Market Rvolution | widened the gap between rich and poor |
