Chp 14 Vocabulary
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| 3075771005 | Emerald Isle | Because its vegetation is a brilliant green for most of the year, Ireland is nicknamed the ______ ____. |  | 0 |
| 3075775886 | Irish Potato Famine | A famine in 1845 when the main crop of Ireland, potatoes, was destroyed by disease. |  | 1 |
| 3075782077 | "Black Forties" | The time in Ireland when the potato crop failed resulting in about 2 million people to parish causing people to flee the land. |  | 2 |
| 3075810616 | No Irish Need Apply - NINA | Mid 1800s, US, it was an act of Nativism because people didn't like the Irish and thought that they were taking American jobs so they segregated against them. |  | 3 |
| 3075826926 | Ancient Order Hibernians | Semi-secret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in American. |  | 4 |
| 3075833223 | German Immigrants | These European immigrants were a major non-English group to settle in the American colonies. |  | 5 |
| 3075850322 | "nativists" | They rallied for political action, and tried rigid immigration restrictions. |  | 6 |
| 3075824219 | The Know Nothing Party | An anti-Catholic Nativist Party that demanded literacy tests as a requirement for immigration. When asked about their party, they would reply " I know nothing." |  | 7 |
| 3085815845 | Samuel Slater | English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, he is considered the founder of the American cotton industry. |  | 8 |
| 3085820231 | Eli Whitney | A mechanical genius who invented the cotton gin, which was machine that separated the cotton from the seed. |  | 9 |
| 3085821527 | King Cotton | Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry. |  | 10 |
| 3085825755 | Embargo Act | 1807 act which ended all of America's importation and exportation. |  | 11 |
| 3085829831 | Elias Howe | Howe invented the sewing machine in 1845 and patented it in 1846. |  | 12 |
| 3085830499 | Issac Singer | Helped Howe perfect the sewing machine by making it quicker and brought it to middle class families and large manufacturers. |  | 13 |
| 3085832457 | Samuel Morse | United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code. |  | 14 |
| 3085833692 | Morse Code | A system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation. |  | 15 |
| 3085834616 | Wage Slaves | Engels's theory that people are working like slaves; factory work is disguised to not look like slavery, but the wages are so low that people are basically slaves; workers are slaves to machines. |  | 16 |
| 3085835606 | Kentucky Bluegrass | Nickname for European bluegrass that thrived in Kentucky, ideal pasture for livestock thus luring thousands of pioneers into the west. |  | 17 |
| 3085836520 | Urban Growth | Three ways a city can grow in population: 1) when immigration is greater than outer migration 2) when the birth rate is higher than the death rate 3) annexation. |  | 18 |
| 3085837244 | Commonwealth v. Hunt | The case was the first judgement in the U.S. that recognized that the conspiracy law is inapplicable to unions and that strikes for a closed shop are legal. Also decided that unions are not responsible for the illegal acts of their members. |  | 19 |
| 3085838354 | Lowell Massachusetts Factory | Lowell Girls: farm girls, worked in factories, received good education and had access to libraries, stayed in dorms together. |  | 20 |
| 3085841497 | Catherine Beecher | A writer and lecturer, she worked on behalf of household arts and education of the young and opposed women's suffrage. |  | 21 |
| 3085843316 | Women's Suffrage | National American Woman Suffrage Association formed in 1910 carries cause of women's suffrage to victory, granted suffrage in the 19th amendment. |  | 22 |
| 3085844289 | John Deere | American blacksmith that was responsible for inventing the steel plow. |  | 23 |
| 3085846077 | Cyrus McCormick | American inventor and industrialist, he invented the mechanical reaper and harvesting machine that quickly cut down wheat. |  | 24 |
| 3085846946 | Landcaster Turnpike | Built in the 1790s by a private company this roadway linked Philadelphia and Lancaster Pennsylvania. |  | 25 |
| 3085849896 | Cumberland Road | A national road that stretched from Maryland to Illinois. It was the first national/interstate highway. |  | 26 |
| 3085851320 | Robert Fulton | A painter/ engineer who got financial backing to build a powerful steam engine. Skeptics called it ''Fulton's Folly''. |  | 27 |
| 3085852581 | Clinton's Big Ditch | A nickname for the Erie Canal. Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York pushed for building the canal across the state of New York, thereby connecting NYC with the Great Lakes. |  | 28 |
| 3085855213 | Erie Canal | A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825. The canal allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West. |  | 29 |
| 3085856214 | Gov. DeWitt Clinton | United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal. |  | 30 |
| 3085860048 | Iron Horse | Nickname for the railroad that was fast, reliable, cheaper than canals to construct, and not frozen in the winter. |  | 31 |
| 3085865111 | Clipper Ships | Long, narrow, wooden ships with tall masts and enormous sails. |  | 32 |
| 3085866252 | Pony Express | Carried mail speedily the two-thousand lonely miles from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. Daring, lightweight riders, leaping onto wiry ponies saddled at stations approximately ten miles apart. |  | 33 |
| 3085867636 | Market Revolution | Dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions. |  | 34 |
| 3085870407 | Molly Maguires | A radical, secret Irish labor union of the 1860s and 1870s. A secret Irish organization of coal miners in regions of western Pennsylvania and West Virginia in the mid to late 1800s. |  | 35 |
| 3085876771 | Tammy Hall | This was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society. The Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants. |  | 36 |
| 3086142464 | Boss Tweed | Leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine. A political boss who carried corruption to new extremes, and cheated the city out of more than $100 million. |  | 37 |
| 3086146015 | Cult of Domesticity | True womanhood (by people who like it), is a view about women in the 1800s. They believed that women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home. |  | 38 |
| 3086147745 | Limited Liability | A person's financial liability is limited to a fixed sum, most commonly the value of a person's investment in a company or partnership. If a company with limited liability is sued, then the plaintiffs are suing the company, not its owners or investors. |  | 39 |
