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| 299932530 | Central Park | Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1858, New York's Central Park was the first example of a movement to create urban parks. | |
| 299932531 | "Corporations" | businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock | |
| 299932532 | "Domestic Virtues" | the role of being a mother, entrusted with the nurturing of the young, seemed more central to the family than it had in the past. And the role as wife grew more important as well. Women learned to place a high value on keeping a clean, comfortable, and well-appointed home, on entertaining, and on dressing elegantly and stylishly | |
| 299932533 | Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo | |
| 299932534 | "Express Contact" | contract between laborer and employee, calls for more work than 10hr/day; little impact- employers often forced laboroers to sign contract prior to hiring | |
| 299932535 | Factory Girls Association | In 1834, mill workers in Lowell organized a union known as this, which staged a strike to protest a 25 percent wage cut. Two years later the association struck again, against a rent increase in boardinghouses. Both Strikes failed, and a recession in 1837 nearly killed the organization. | |
| 299932536 | Interchangeable Parts | identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring | |
| 299932537 | Lowell System | was a paternalistic textile factory system of the early 19th century that employed mainly young women [age 15-35] from New England farms to increase efficiency, productivity and profits in ways different from other methods | |
| 299932538 | Mohawk and Hudson Railroad | One of the first railroad companies. Established in New York and began running trains along the 16 miles of track between Schenectady and Albany in 1831. | |
| 299932539 | Naitve American Association | one of the 1st secret societies created to combat what nativists called the "alien menace". They began protesting against immigration in 1837; in 1845, nativists held a convention in Philadelphia to create the NAA | |
| 299932540 | Oberlin College | (AJ) , first college to teach women and African Americans | |
| 299932541 | "Safety Valve" | termed by Frederick Jackson Turner, historian; availability of W lands for discontent workers (escape option), rarely affordable for urban workers; politics- white males felt that voting offered a way to guide society, felt significant to community | |
| 299932542 | Samuel F.B. Morse | an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code | |
| 299932543 | Sarah Hale | Editor of "Godey's Lady Book," a tremendously popular magazine advising American women on how they should dress and act |
