12/10 Flashcards
Samuel Slater
spinning Jenny
Robert Fulton
steamboat, design steam engine to move steamboat
Samuel FB Morse
Telegraph
John Deere
1836, invented light weight plow with steel cut edge
• made preparing ground for planting much less work
List for reason factories began in the new England states
One many fast moving rivers
two ships for transportation
three willing labor force
four access to ocean
how much of the south population in 1840 was enslaved African-Americans
8%
what problems faced free blacks in the south
1) some states made them leave after they gain their freedom
2) did not permit them to vote or receive education
3) employers refuse to hire them
4) possibly being captured and sold into slavery
List six effects Nat Turner’s rebellion Had
1) whites killed more than 200 African-Americans in revenge
2) State legislatures passed harsh laws that kept free blacks and slaves from having weapons and buying liquor
3) slaves couldn’t hold religious services without whites present
4) postmaster stop delivering anti-slavery publications
5) grip of slavery grew tighter in south
6) tension over slavery increase between North and South
what three main actions did the American system have
1) established protective tariff
2) established national bank
3) improves countries transportation system
in 1841 the national road was extended to what city and state
vandalia Illinois
what was the period between 1825 in 1850 Known as
era of good feelings
what improved water transportation
erie canal - created a water route that was used for settlement and trade
in the case of McCulloch versus Maryland the court ruled that a state couldn’t tax what
A national bank
which agreement between the US and Britain Limited each other there’s naval forces on the Great Lakes
rush-bagot agreement (1817)
sectionalism
loyalty to interest of your own region or section of the country rather than the nation as a whole
what two things are stated in the Adams-onis treaty
1) ceded florida to us
2) defined boundary between us and new spain
eli whitney
interchangeable parts, Cottongin
List the three parts of the Missouri compromise
1) mo admitted slave
2) maine admitted free
3) 36 30 line (north prohibited, south according to state)
List three things Monroe stated in the Monroe doctrine
1) US would regard any interference as direct threat
2) US would stay out of European wars
3) latin america resented arrogance of us
Leland Stanford
Business tycoon, cofounder of Central Pacific Railroad, creator of Stanford University, governor of California
Singer and howe
invented the sewing machine 1840s
elias howe and isaac singer
regional specialization
East – industrial
South – cotton and slavery
West – wheat
industrial revolution
change for making things by hand to making them in factories
working man’s party
founded by Dell Owen and others in New York
describe Lowell factory and Lowell girls
factory spun cotton into yarn and wove cotton into cloth, young girls came to Loel in spite of noise, worked over 12 hours a day
Gibbons versus Ogden
- to steam boat operators fought over shipping rights on Hudson river
- supreme Court ruled interstate commerce could be regulated by federal government
three inventions that helped improve farming
plow, reaper, and threshing machine
