Barberree ch 14
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| the German liberal who came to America in the mid-1800s, was a relentless foe of slavery and public corruption, and contributed richly to the elevation of American political life. | ||
| the semi-secret society founded in Ireland to fight rapacious landlords that served in America as a benevolent society for the downtrodden. | ||
| the New England farm girls of the mid-1800s who worked in a model Massachusetts textile mill. | ||
| the name for the 15 families who joined together in the mid-1800s to form one of the earliest and most powerful joint capital ventures. | ||
| the popular nickname given to the Erie Canal in the 1800s. | ||
| the wealthy manufacturer who was successful in 1858 in stretching a telegraph from Newfoundland to Ireland. | ||
| another name for the national road whose construction began in 1811 and which stretched from a town in western Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois. | ||
| the inventor who changed farming by inventing the steel plow in 1837. | ||
| the steamboat Clermont had this as its common nickname. | ||
| name the bodies of water at both ends of the Erie Canal. | ||
| the combination of inventions and gradual changes that ushered in the modern factory system. | ||
| the New York governor who pushed for the construction of the 363-mile canal in this state in 1817. | ||
| the disaster that forced many Irishmen to migrate to America during the 1840s. | ||
| the more common name for the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner of American party that was part of the nativist movement of the 1840s. | ||
| the term used to describe the US economy on the eve of the Civil War in which each region specialized to the benefit of the other regions. | ||
| labor earned a hope-giving victory in 1842 when the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled this in Commonwealth v. Hunt. | ||
| the early Pennsylvania hard-surfaced road that served as a model for improving transportation west after the 1770s. | ||
| the term for the much-read messages sent home from America by immigrants describing a richer life. | ||
| the Virginia-born inventor who produced a mechanical mower-reaper in the early 1800s. | ||
| the painter-engineer who constructed the first successful steamboat in 1807. | ||
| the fur trader and real estate speculator who left an estate of $30 million upon his death in 1848. | ||
| the machine that revolutionized the textile industry by allowing so much more cotton to be separated from its seed than before. | ||
| the shadowy Irish miners' union that rocked the coal districts of Pennsylvania in the 1860s and 1870s. | ||
| the American developer of the telegraph who in 1844 sent a message from Washington to Baltimore, a distance of 40 miles. | ||
| the invasion of immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to these movements based on fear, hatred, and mistrust of immigrants. | ||
| the system of carrying mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in 1860 that took only about 10 days. | ||
| the pioneer American steamer that crept across the Atlantic in 1819 using sail most of the time. This was the first steam-aided crossing. | ||
| the versatile inventor who improved upon and promoted the invention of Elias Howe. | ||
| the British mechanic acclaimed as the "Father of the Factory System" in America. | ||
| the powerful New York political machine under the control of Irish-Americans in the latter half of the 19th century. | ||
| the mechanical genius who in a period of ten days constructed a crude machine that revolutionized the cotton industry. | ||
| the long, narrow, high-masted, and faster American sailing ships of the 1840s and 1850s. | ||
| a major triumph for labor came in 1840 when President Van Buren established this for all federal employees on public works. | ||
| the nickname for the liberal German immigrants of the mid-1800s. | ||
| the slang term for a politician in America in the mid-1800s making negative remarks about the British to his Irish audiences. | ||
| in 1798 Eli Whitney revolutionized manufacturing in the US a second time by introducing this principle that is the basis of mass production. | ||
| the 1836 author of the book Awful Disclosures which depicted fictional sins behind convent walls. | ||
| after the Peace at Ghent, British manufacturers unloaded surpluses at low prices prompting this mildly effective US tariff. | ||
| Elias Howe promoted manufacturing in the 1850s by successfully developing a commercial version of this machine. |
