Unit 4 Flashcards
The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was
the rebellion against British rule and potato famine
Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
Cotton gin
The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossumed
in the New England textile industry
As a result of the development of the cotton gin
slavery revived and expanded
The American workforce in the early nineteenth century was characterized by
substantial employment of women and children in factories
Most early railroads in the US were built in the
North
What did the regions specialize in during the new continental economy?
South - grew cotton for export
East - made machines and textiles for the other regions
West - grew grains and livestock to feed eastern factory workers
The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it
more reliant on women as member and social reformers
What prejudice prevented women from obtaining higher education in the early 19th century
too much learning would injure women’s brains, ruin their health, and make them unfit for marriage
New England reform Dorothea Dix helped with
prison and asylum reform
By the 1850s, the women’s rights movement was eclipsed by
abolitionism
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The profitable southern slave system
hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole
Slaves were denied education because
masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent
Slaves fought the system of slavery by
- slowing down their work pace
- sabotaging expensive equipment
- pilfering goods that their labor had produced
- running away from their masters
Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery by
- claiming slavery was supported by the Bible
- slaveholders said slavery lifted Africans from the barbarism of the jungle and gave them Christian civilization
- Slaveholders claimed that master-slave relationships resembled a family
- saying that slaves toiled under better working conditions than factory workers and hired hands in the North
Why was Britain so intensely interested in an independent Texas?
- it would check the southward surge of American colossus, who posed a threat to British possessions
- clashes between Texas and America would create a smoke-screen diversion that foreign powers could hide behind and challenge the Monroe Doctrine
- British merchants believed that Texas could be an important free trade area, to offset the tariff walled US
- The alliance would give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas
Manifest Destiny
The view that God had ordained the growth of and American nation stretching across N. America
Who were the spot resolutions introduced by
Abraham Lincoln
What did the Wilmot Proviso declare
That slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the US
