1-90 Flashcards
Robert fulton
Designed worlds first steamboat
Steamboat
Seagoing vessel from a steam powered engine
Erie canal
Waterway connecting Hudson r with lake erie
Eli Whitney
Cotton gin, interchangeable parts
Cotton gin
Separates cotton seeds
Mechanics
Machines
Market revolution
Theory that us shifted from traditional to modern free market
Middle class
Composed of business and professional people, bureaucrats
Division of labor
Separation of a work process into a number of tasks so it can specialized
Industrial revolution
Transition from creating goods by hand to machines
Mills girls
Young yankee women who worked in factories
Unions
Association of workers in a particular trade
Nativism
Beliefs favoring the interests of est. inhabitants against immigrants
Gibbons v. Ogden
Commerce clause, states can’t interfere w/ power of congress to regulate commerce
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Est. legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non union workers
Nativist movement
Viewed immigrants as unable to become Americans
Manifest destiny
Americans have a God given right to conquer
Transcendentalists
Each person has direct communication with God
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Led the transcendentalists movement
Henry David Thoreau
Started civil disobedience, refused to pay toll tax
Second great awakening
Protestant revival movement, improve society (lifestyles)
Individualism
Coined by Alexis de tocqueville, belief in freedom
Self made man
Men who rose up to wealth from humble origins
Cult of domesticity
Emphasized femininity and woman’s role n the household
Franchise
The right to vote
American system
A govt sponsored program to harmonize and balance the natio s agriculture, commerce, and industry
Henry clay
Senator from Kentucky, created the Missouri compromise (great pacificator, compromiser)
Tariff of 1816
1st protective tariff, encourage Americans to buy goods made in us
Second bank of the United states
Held federal tax receipts and regulated money
Panic of 1819
Financial panic, unemployment, agricultural halved
Mcculloch v. Maryland
Inferior status of state laws in relation to federal laws
Era of good feelings
Collapse of federalist party
Missouri compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non slave state
Monroe doctrine
Further colonization by Europe in the western hemisphere would b considered a hostile act
Martin van Buren
8th president, passed the divorce bill