Chapter 9 Flashcards
Erie Canal
a 364 mile waterway connecting the Hudson river and Lake Erie. Built to carry people, crops and manufacturers.
Steamboats
product of the industrial age, crucial flexibility to the Mississippi basin river based transportation. Built by Robert Fulton to reduce drafts and enlarge cargo capacity.
Government role in aiding transportation
state legisature subsidized canals while the national government created vast portals of transportation.
railroads
one of the core national transportation systems.Became linked to western cities to carry heavy duty like lumber.
John Deere and McCormick
Deere made first steel plow out of old saws in 1837
McCormick mass produced self raking reapers that harvest 1 acres of grain a days.
Charles Finney
Presbyterian minister and leader of 2nd great awakening.
“Father of Modern Revivalism”
Temperance Movement
most successful social reform.
against the comsumption of alchoholic beverages because people would drink till their death.
American Temperance Society
a group the restrained themselves from drinking alcoholic beverages. They help prayer events led by women to help stay sober.
Irish and German Immigration
Irish and German immigrated to the United States but stayed away from the south because of slave competition.They were very poor so resulted in churches to help them.
Rise of Nativism
Samuel Morse published a threat that warned of a Catholic threat
Reasons for Nativsm
to protect the native born cultures from the immigrants
