Era of Good Feeling Flashcards
Who was Clay?
He was a War Hawk that created the “American System.” (Turnpikes, roads, and canals). It was to spread Democracy.
What was the first highway (“American System”)?
Cumberland Road (transportation: horse/walk)
Who created the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who was Robert Fulton?
Fulton created steam = Fulton’s Fully. “Clermont” was the first steamship.
Beginning of the “age of steam”
Who was Samuel Morse?
He created the “Morse Code” of the telegraph.
Who created the steam locomotive in U.S.A.?
Tom a.k.a. “Tom Thumb” stole the idea from England.
What is the “Lowell girls?”
Women who made clothes by using power loomw/spinning jennies. (Pre-Industrial).
- Waltham System: only virgin and farmer girls were hired. that make clothes.
- Lowell Offering: Poetry.
Who was the “ice man” from Boston?
Fredrick Tudor a.k.a the ice man.
What does Yankee Ingenuity”
Invention thinker
Who was James Monroe?
He started the “Era of Good Feeling.” It was a brief period of one political party. Partisan divisiveness virtually disappears…
What was the beginning of Journalism?
Penny Press (Steam Driven Press)
Why was “Tall Story, Crockett Chronicles important?
It was America’s national identity
