The Market Revolution, Age of Jackson and The Reforms Flashcards
What started the Market Revolution?
The connection between Northern industries with western and southern farms which created advances
What is the Market Revolution?
Advances in agriculture, industry and transportation
What were some changes to the Transportation field?
National Road, Canals, Steamboats and Railroad
What were some changes to the Industrial Technology?
Interchangeable parts and the factory system
What were some changes to Agriculture and Innovation?
Cotton Gin, Mechanical Reaper (wheat), and Steel Plow
How did the changes in Transportation affect Market economy?
got more money and united the country, more towns developed, and businesses,
How did the Erie canal impact NYC?
gathered a lot of money and a lot of people used the canal for trading and sending products. Many towns were built along the canal.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
created the first cloth factory by memorizing the cotton mills in England.
Who is Samuel Slater?
memorized textile machinery and made the first cotton spinning mill.
What were the consequences of the Cotton Gin?
Took much less time and is far more convenient compared to before
Need more land for the high demand, so they pushed the Native Americans and was a high demand for slaves to maintain the plantations
What was the second Middle Passage?
Slaves were brought to the South- 200-300 miles
Forced Migration
Felt shame- women were being transported during the day but raped at night
Lasted 70 years
Domestic slave trade
What were the effects of the growth of cotton on enslaved women?
Interested in women due to reproduction so they had a natural growth
How did banks benefit from slaves?
Slave mortgages led to profiting banks which led to banks selling bonds to European investors
What is a democracy?
respectful and peaceful order in which people are content, making decisions for the benefits of themselves and with their rights are able to be the best of themselves.
What is mudslinging
Attacking personal stuff and not ideas. Using bad things from a candidates past life and not even their principles.
What was the Corrupt Bargain
Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William Harris Crawford ran for presidency but none had enough electoral votes.
Adams proposes to Clay that if Clay supported Adams then Adams would become Secretary of State which is an advantageous position, in order to become president This sets the stage for dirty politicking.
What was Andrew Jackson’s nature?
well-known by Americans for his role in the War of 1812 (battle of New Orleans) as a general as well as being a strong-willed, strong-tempered, and strong-tongued politician
What was Andrew Jackson’s Assassination Attempt?
Andrew Jackson was leaving the funeral of the South Carolina congressman Warren Davis and a house painter named Richard Lawrence shot Andrew Jackson twice but misfired twice and Jackson ran after him and started beating him with his cane. People believed that Lawrence had a mental issue that resulted in him trying to kill Jackson, and spent the rest of his life in mental institutions.
What were the 3 pillars of the American system?
new national bank
tariff on imported manufacture goods
federal financing for canals and roads
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri wants to become a state, but we need to balance the free and slave states thus Maine is a free state but Slavery was prohibited in the remaining territories of Louisiana
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
US would oppose efforts of colonization and would stay out of European matters and nobody interferes with America’s matter
Why was South Carolina against the Tariff of 1828?
it only benefitted the North and they were already angry by the Missouri compromise because they believed the national gov had too much strength
How did Jackson respond to the nullification crisis?
Used the force act and collected taxes using Army and Navy
What was the Indian Removal Act?
used funds to uproot 5 Native American nations and used force to remove them causing the Trail of Tears. The pleas were ignored by President Jackson.
