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| 939544422 | Mercantile economy | Type of economy that dominated in cities and was based largely on overseas trade | |
| 939544423 | Agrarian Economy | Type of economy that dominated much of the nation by the 1810's and was based on farming | |
| 939544424 | Market economy | A national and international type of economy that even most farmers were a part of | |
| 939544425 | Free labor | An idea held in the North in constrast to the idea of slavery which dominated in the South | |
| 939544426 | Factory system | System that marked the beginning of the Industrial revolution and it brought all the elements of manufacturing under one roof | |
| 939544427 | Eerie Canal | Its construction began in 1817 and ended in 1825 providing a route through the Great Lakes, giving direct access to the West | |
| 939544428 | Nativism | Believe that grew in native-born Americans as more and more foreign-born immigrants came into the country.Many believed they were inferior overlooking their European heritage | |
| 939544429 | Native American Party | Nativists that held a convention and created this party in Philadelphia in 1845 | |
| 939544430 | Federal land grants | The way railroads gained substantial assistance from the federal government in the form of land | |
| 939544431 | Samuel F. B. Morse | Succeeded in transmitting a telegrpah from Baltimore to Washington | |
| 939544432 | Horace Greeley's Tribune | A major metropolitan newspaper in New York that gave serious attention to national and international events | |
| 939544433 | Corporations | Obtained a charter by a special act of state legislature and combined the resources of many shareholders | |
| 939544434 | Merchant capitalists | Entrepreneurs who were engaged primarily in foreign and domestic trade and who at times invested some of their profits in small-scale manufacturing ventures | |
| 939544435 | Skilled artisans | Independent craft workers who owned and managed their own shops as small businessmen that were not likely to flock to factory jobs | |
| 939544436 | Unskilled workers | Workers who got factory jobs but were not numerous enough in the 1820-30's to form a reservoir from which the new industries could draw | |
| 939544437 | Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner | Formed when several Nativists groups combined in the 1850 and demanded banning the foreign-born from holding office | |
| 939544438 | "Know Nothings" | A nativist movement whose members used secret passwords such as "I know nothing" | |
| 939544439 | American Party | Political organization that was created after the election of 1852 by the Know-Nothings | |
| 939544440 | Turnpike Era | Time during 1790s to 1820s where most Americans relied on roads for internal transportation | |
| 939544441 | Steamboats | Vastly improved internal transportation by water in 1820s because it made traveling upsteam much quicker | |
| 939544442 | DeWitt Clinton | Became the governor of New York and advocated the construction of the Eerie Canal | |
| 939544443 | Hudson River | River in New York and after the completion of the Eerie canal, it was connected to the Great Lakes | |
| 939544444 | Baltimore and Ohio | First company to begin actual operations of te railroads and opened 13 miles of track in 1830 | |
| 939544445 | Interstate highways | A network of roads that went through and connected US cities |
