chapter 11 Flashcards
Changing American Life
made machine that could separate seeds from cotton (cotton gin)
Eli Whitney
denied the Trinity
Unitarians
can easily be replace by identical parts
interchangeable parts
large revival in America
Second Great Awakening
came to America because of a potato famine in our country
Irish
water compartment that can be opened on both ends to let water in or out
lock
patented the swing machine with a foot petal
Isaac Singer
improved factory system through the development of interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
specific type of road that charges a fee
turnpike
also called Cumberland Rd. because of the city where it starts, although it doesnt go near the Cumberland gap
National Road
came for rich farmland and to escape political problems in our land
Germans
believe that man is born good but is corrupted by society
transcendentalist
left England to build factory machines in America
Samuel Slater
led drive for tax supported public schools
Horace Mann
time period where machines and factories replaced hand tools
Industrial Revolution
built across Kentucky on land bought from the Cherokees
Wilderness Road
organized to discuss women’s right and proposed law changes
Seneca Falls Convention
opposed slavery and wanted to end it
abolitionists
first to successfully test a locomotive on an American railroad
Peter Cooper
created a better plow with a steel blade so soil would not stick
John Deere
revivals attracted people through new publicly measures special techniques
Charles Finney
most famous canal in country
Erie Canal
worked to improve conditions at facilities for the mentally ill
Dorothea DIx
led debates at Yale about the truth of the the word of God
Timothy Dwight
people stayed for weeks and days and heard much preaching and sang songs
camp meetings
national passage through the Cumberland Mts.
Cumberland Gap
created a mill town for girls in Massachusetts that provided room and board for workers
Francis Cabot Lowell
picked cotton in southern fields
slaves
invention expanded communication by sending signals across wires (telegraph)
Samuel F. Morse
invented a machine for cutting and harvesting grain
Cyrus McCormick
helped organize Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott
helped organized Seneca Falls Convention + taught both marriage + others the Bible were oppressive to women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
welcomed American trade in our ports
Chinese
took mail from Missouri to California
Pony Express riders
threatened into opening American trade with our company
Japanese
invented the clipper
John Griffiths
production of large quantities of products
mass production
worked in factories at a young age and had little education
children
worked for better working conditions and better pay
labor unions
faster than other sailing vessels, although it doesn’t have an engine
clipper
led the building of wilderness road through Cumberland Gap
Daniel Boone
shallow-manmade water highway
canal
traveled to Japan to open trade
Matthew Perry
once called the Great Warrior Path
Great Wagon Road
steamboat dramatically reduced the travel time from NYC to Albany
Robert Fulton
could travel faster than any sailboat because of its engine
steamboat
a postmaster general under Washington
Samuel Osgood
