AP US History American Pageant Chapter 14 Flashcards

1836458897	cult of domesticity	idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands	0
1836458898	turnpike	A road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it	1
1836458899	Irish contributions	policemen and firemen, corn beef, private schools, religion, beer	2
1836458900	Molly Mcquires	These were a group of Pennsylvania Coal Miners who, in the mid-1870's adopted a new technique in dealing with worker-management disputes, namely the use of terrorism. Members of this secret group used arson, sabotage & destruction of property in order to intimidate Mine operators. Eventually their members were arrested and tried.	3
1836458901	German contributions	Conestoga wagon; Kentucky riffle; Christmas tree; kindergarten;	4
1836458902	Lowell system	Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around the mills	5
1836458903	trans-Allegheny region	The Nations Breadbasket; planted corn and raised crops	6
1836458904	know nothing party	Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party.	7
1836458905	Cumberland (national) road	The first highway built by the federal government. It was a major overland shipping route and an important connection between the North and the West.	8
1836458906	order of the star spangled banner	The noisier American "Nativists" rallied for political action. In 1849 they formed this, which soon developed into the formidable American, or "Know-Nothing," party—a name derived from its secretiveness.	9
1836458907	Elias Howe	American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home.	10
1836458908	commonwealth v. hunt	(1842) a landmark ruling of the MA Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers.	11
1836458909	Robert Fulton	1765-1815) American engineer and inventor, he built the first commercially successful full-sized steamboat, the Clermont, which lead to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and people	12
1836458910	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	13
1836458911	nativism	An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics.	14
1836458912	Erie canal	"Clinton's Big Ditch" that transformed transportation and economic life across the Great Lakes region from Buffalo to Chicago	15
1836458913	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.	16