Chapter 14 Review Flashcards
Who wrote the popular lecture-essay called “Self Reliance” that reflected the spirit of individualism in American popular culture during the 1830s and 1840s?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Historians’ term for the spoliation of western natural resources through excessive hunting, logging, mining, and grazing.
Ecological Imperialism
How many states are part of the US in 1860?
33 states
What caused a large influx of Irish immigrants in the 1840s?
The Irish potato famine
What cities received the greatest number of Irish immigrants due to the potato famine?
Boston and NYC
What was the name of the powerful NY political machine that primarily drew support from the city’s immigrants?
Tammany Hall
Where did the “German Forty Eighters” mostly move to?
The middle west.
What political party, also known as the American Party, emerged in response to an influx of immigrants?
The Know-Nothing Party.
What was the title of Maria Monk’s sensational exposé of alleged horrors in Catholic Convents?
Awful Disclosures
Define Industrial Revolution
Shift toward mass production and mechanization that included the creation of the modern factory system.
Who was called the “Father of the Factory System?”
Samuel Slater
What was the Cotton Gin’s purpose?
To speed up the process of harvesting cotton and make the crop more profitable.
What principle did the 1842 case of Commonwealth V. Hunt hold up?
The legality of Unions
Define Factory Girls
Young women employed in the growing factories of the early 19th century, they labored long hours in difficult conditions, living in socially new conditions away from farms and families.
What was the idea called that venerated the domestic role of women?
Cult of Domesticity
