AP US History Ch. 14 Cause/Effect Flashcards

5985882503	The open, rough-and-tumble society of the American West	Made Americans strongly individualistic and self-reliant	0
5985882504	Natural population growth and increasing immigration from Ireland and Germany	Made the fast-growing United States the fourth most populous nation in the Western world	1
5985882505	The poverty and Roman Catholic faith of most Irish immigrants	Aroused nativist hostility and occasional riots	2
5985882506	Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin	Transformed southern agriculture and gave new life to slavery	3
5985882507	The passage of general incorporation and limited-liability laws	Enabled businesspeople to create more powerful and effective joint-stock capital ventures	4
5985882508	The early efforts of labor unions to organize and strike	Aroused fierce opposition from businesspeople and guardians of the law	5
5985882509	Improved western transportation and the new McCormick reaper	Encouraged western farmers to specialize in cash-crop agricultural production for eastern and European markets	6
5985882510	The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825	Opened the Great Lakes states to rapid economic growth and spurred the development of major cities	7
5985882511	The development of a strong east-west rail network	Bound the two northern sections together across the mountains and tended to isolate the South	8
5985882512	The replacement of household production by factory-made, store-bought goods	Weakend many women's economic status and pushed them into a separate sphere of home and family	9