Study Guide Flashcards
samuel slater
secretly bought the design for the spinning jenny from Great Britain to America
robert fulton
helped invent the steamboat engine
samuel f. b. morse
invented morse code
john deere
invented mechanical plow
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere
define sectionalism
3 parts of the Missouri Compromise
- MO admitted slave
- Maine admitted free
- 36 30 line
leland stanford
business tycoon and founder of Stanford University/ co-founder of the central pacific railroad
transatlantic cable
an undersea cable running under the atlantic ocean used for telegraph communications
define industrial revolution
a change from making things by hand to making them in factories
workingman’s party
an american labor organization led by denis kearney
a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course without interfering
laissez faire
Gibbons vs. Ogden
2 steamboat operators fought over shipping rights on the Hudson River
desribe lowell factory and lowell girls
- factory spun cotton into yarn
- girls worked 12 hrs. a day
- girls came for good wages 2-4 dollars
- girls usually worked until they married
eli whitney
invented the cotton gin
list 4 reasons factories began in the New England states
- fast-moving rivers
- ships and access to the ocean
- willing labor force
- helped out families who needed work
how much of the south’s population in 1840 was enslaved African-Americans
1/3
what 5 problems faced free blacks in the south
- gained freedom = blacks leave
- no vote no education
- employers refuse to hire them
- captured and sold into slavery
List the 6 effects not Turner’s rebellion
- spread fear in the south
- legislators passed harsh laws
- slaves could not hold religious services
- grip of slavery grew tighter
- tension over slavery increased
- whites killed more than 200 African-Americans in revenge
3 thanks Monroe stated in the Monroe doctrine
- US regard only interference as direct threat
- US stay out of European wars
- US no interfere with wxisting colonies
