Chapter 14 Vocab of The American Pageant
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| 1846093352 | Self Reliance | What was the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay describing a defining characteristic of American frontier life? | 0 | |
| 1846093353 | Rendezvous System | What was the term for the method of fur trade created on the frontier in the 19th century? | 1 | |
| 1846093354 | George Catlin | father of the American park system? | 2 | |
| 1846093358 | Commonwealth v. Hunt | What was the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that legalized labor unions in that state? | 3 | |
| 1846093359 | Teaching | What profession became open to women after the tireless work of Catharine Beecher? | 4 | |
| 1846093360 | Cult of domesticity | What was the term for the widespread cultural belief that glorified women as homemakers? | 5 | |
| 1846093361 | John Deere | Who was the American innovator who produced an effective steel plow? | 6 | |
| 1846093362 | Lancaster Turnpike | What was the first profitable private major road in America? | 7 | |
| 1846093363 | National (Cumberland) Road | What was the only national interstate constructed prior to the American Civil War? | 8 | |
| 1846093364 | Clipper ships | What was the name of the long, narrow, sail laden craft that sacrificed cargo space for speed? | 9 | |
| 1846093365 | Pony Express | What was the mail delivery system established in 1860 to provide postal service from Missouri to California? | 10 | |
| 1846093366 | Transportation Revolution | What is the term for the period in which turnpikes, canals, and railroads emerged that transformed the American economy? | 11 | |
| 1846093367 | Market Revolution | What is the term for the period in which American was transformed from a subsistence economy of scattered farms and workshops into a national network of industry and commerce? | 12 | |
| 1846093368 | American Dream | What is the term for the ability to move up the class system from poverty to wealth that the text states is often exaggerated in American legend? | 13 | |
| 1846136806 | 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. | 14 | |
| 1846136807 | Cyrus McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884) | 15 | |
| 1846136808 | Eli Whitney | An American inventor who developed the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged | 16 | |
| 1846136809 | Carl Schurz | He was a German immigrant who fought for political freedom in his home country, and against slavery and unfair treatment of the Native Americans in America | 17 | |
| 1846136810 | Robert Fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) | 18 | |
| 1846136811 | DeWitt Clinton | Governor of New York who began the Erie Canal project | 19 | |
| 1846136812 | Catherine Beecher | A writer and lecturer, she worked on behalf of household arts and education of the young. She established two schools for women and emphasized better teacher training. She opposed women's suffrage. | 20 | |
| 1846136813 | industrial revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods | 21 | |
| 1846136814 | limited liability | A form of business ownership in which the owners are liable only up to the amount of their individual investments. | 22 | |
| 1846136815 | nativism | An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics. | 23 | |
| 1846136816 | Clermont | Fulton's steamboat | 24 | |
| 1846155183 | Ancient Order of Hiberians | Semisecret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in America | 25 | |
| 1846155184 | Boston Associates | 15 Boston families that dominated textile, railroad, insurance, and banking industries | 26 | |
| 1846155185 | Molly Maguires | An active, militant Irish organization of farmers based in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields who are believed responsible for much violence | 27 | |
| 1846155186 | General Incorporation Law | allows corporations to be formed without a charter from the legislature. It also refers to a law enabling a certain type of corporation, such as a railroad, to exercise eminent domain and other special rights without a charter from the legislature. | 28 | |
| 1846155187 | Commonwealth v Hunt | Massachusetts supreme court case that ruled that labor unions were not illegal conspiracies | 29 | |
| 1846155188 | Tammany Hall | Political machine in New York, headed by Boss Tweed. | 30 | |
| 1846155189 | Order of the Star-Spangled Banner | was an oath-bound secret society in NYC created by Charles Allen in 1849 to protest the rise of the Irish, Roman Catholic, and German immigration into the U.S. They were also known as the "Know-nothings" because they kept the society a secret. | 31 | |
| 1846155190 | sewing machine | Elias Howe invented this machine in 1846, which would very quickly be replaced by Isaac Merrit Signer | 32 |
