2022-12-12 Flashcards
Which anti-group, anti-immigrant group became known as “the know nothings”?
Nativists
Who is known as the “father of the American factory system”?
Samuel Slater
Who was the primary shareholder of VA and made a rifle?
Oliver Wichester
Who helped Winchester make his rifle?
Benjamin Henry
Who perfected a revolver?
Samuel Colt
Who by the early 1800s had taken a patent on a mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
Who hired New England farm girls to work in his factory?
Francis Cabot Lowell
What was a paper highlighting the girls world like poetry and music?
The Lowell Offering
Who was the main reverend of the Second Great Awakening?
Charles Grandison Finney
Who was the founder of the Mormons?
Joseph Smith
Who moved the Mormons from MO to Utah?
Brigham Young
What did the Mormans try to establish?
Desserret
