157-205 End of the Year Review Terms Flashcards
The South was this type of society whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.
Agrarian
Made the processing of cotton fiber faster and led to the expansion of plantations of slavery to grow more cotton. The South transitioned from tobacco to cotton as the main cash crop and shifted the productivity and population from Virginia and the Carolinas down to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Invented by Eli Whitney.
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Capital of the South
Memphis, TN
People who invented useful devices in the Industrial Revolution.
Industrialists
Invented the telegraph.
Samuel Morse
Invented the mechanical reaper.
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the sewing machine.
Issac Singer
Created the first steamboat.
Robert Fulton
Created the first steam powered locomotive.
Peter Cooper
A time where machines took the place of many hand tools. Much of the power once provided by people and horses began to be replaced, first by flowing water and then by steam engines.
Industrial Revolution
Labor production model invented in Massachusetts in the 19th century. The system was designed so that every step of the manufacturing process was done under one roof and then work was performed by young adult women instead of children or young men
Lowell System
The Industrial Revolution began in Europe and was brought to the United States by this man. He was an apprentice of Richard Arkwright, memorizing Arkwright’s designs of machines which he brought to the U.S.
Samuel Slater
Significant transportation improvements during the industrial age. This was encouraged further with the infection of steamboats and locomotives.
National Road and Erie Canal
Their reason to migrate to the United States was because of a potato famine. They were discriminated against for taking American jobs and protecting Caatholicism.
Irish immigration
Their reasons to migrate to the United States was because of a failed revolution in their country. These people had some wealth and could join the movement west into the Ohio Valley.
German Immigration
The centerpiece of Henry Clay’s statecraft was an integrated economic program. This envisioned a protective tariff, a national bank jointly owned by private stockholders and the federal government, and federal subsidies for transportation projects. The program was intended to promote economic development and diversification, reduce dependence on imports, and tie together the different sections of the country.
American System
Motivations for people to emigrate out of a nation.
Push factors
Reasons for people to immigrate to a specific nation.
Pull Factors
This case established that the federal government controlled interstate commerce.
Gibbons v. Ogden
This case said that states could not tax the National Bank. States cannot pass a law that violates a federal law.
McCulloch v. Maryland
In the Election of 1824, Andrew Jackson received the most votes, but not the electoral college. The House of Representatives would have to decide the election winner. Henry Clay was the Speaker of the House. John Quincy Adams won the election and appointed Henry Clay Secretary of State, because he helped him win the election. Jackson reacted with fury.
Corrupt Bargain
The 7th president of the United States. He changed the way people saw the presidency. Known as the people’s president or the common man president, he appealed to the common American and expanded the right to vote to most white men.
Andrew Jackson
The spread of voting rights and democratic ideas. Before Jackson became president, only white males who owned land could vote, but he made it where all white males could vote.
Jacksonian Democracy
The practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins the election. Andrew Jackson started this.
Spoils System