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| George Catlin | Artist who advocated the preservation of nature as national policy. |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin |
| "rugged individualism" | The idea that Americans are self-sufficient, willing to work hard. |
| The Black Forties | A time period in which the potato famine in Ireland kills over 2 million. |
| Nativists | Native born Americans who discriminated against immigrants. |
| Robert Fulton | Inventor of the steam engine |
| Samuel Slater | Considered the "father of the factory system" |
| Samuel Morse | Inventor of the telegraph |
| Cyrus McCormick | Inventor of the machine-reaper |
| Elias Howe | Inventor of the sewing machine |
| Commonwealth v. Hunt | Court case that stated that unions were not illegal conspiracies. |
| "Cult of Domesticity" | Idea that women as wives, mothers, and homemakers was the ideal role for women. |
| Market Revolution | Transformed America from a subsistence economy of scattered farms into a national network of industry and commerce. |
| Transportation Revolution | Time period in which canals and railroads radiated out from the East, across the Alleghenies, and into the frontier. |
| Mississippi River | The main transportation hub for steamboats of all sizes. |
| Turnpike | Grandfather of the highway, drivers paid a toll and then a barrier of sharp pikes would be moved aside. |
| Cotton Kingdom | Reference to the cotton producing South. |
| "women's sphere" | The home. |
| Lowell Textile Mills | Unusual, this company employed only girls and they were chaperoned. |
| "factory girls" | Worked six days a week, from dark to dark and earning low wages. |
| "wage slaves" | Workers earning extremely low pay. |
| "spindle cities" | Where slave wage earners had a tendency to congregate to be close to the factories. |
| Amish | Unique German immigrants that settled mainly in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. |
| "the world's workshop" | Britain |
| pluralistic society | an ethnically and racially varied community. |
| Order of the Star Spangled Banner | Political organization formed to oppose Roman Catholic immgirants. |
| "The City of Brotherly Love" | Philadelphia |
| Industrial Revolution | A change from hand labor to machine labor |
| Tammany Hall Ring | Famous political machine that stole 6 million from New York City. |
| Boss Tweed | Corrupt leader of the Tammany Hall political machine. |
| Political machine | Symbolic. A form of political corruption that included violence, bribery, stuffing ballot boxes. |
| Fiber Famine | Described the lack of cotton available due to the extreme level of labor to produce it. |
| Principle of Interchangeable parts | Basis for modern mass-production and assembly line methods. |
| "talking wire" | telegraph |
| child labor | Putting children in dangerous, fatigue building occupations as employees for ridiculously low pay. |
| strike | The first form of opposition by workers to the work environment created by the Industrial Revolution. |
| "domestic feminism" | The strengthening of women making choices instead of men. Example, practice of birth control. |
| stagecoach | Popular form of transportation that traveled over the nations' new turnpikes. |
| Pony Express | Only lasted 18 months but legendary for only missing one mail drop. Riders could travel 2,000 miles in 10 days. |
| Sultana | Steamboat that exploded, killing 1700. Symbol of how dangerous the steam engine could be. |
| "Fulton's Folly" | The first ever ship, the Claremont, equipped with the first steam engine. |
| railroad | The most significant contribution to the development of the continental economy. |
| continental economy | When local economies are no longer restricted and can stretch beyond town, district, state. |
| Pullman's Palace | Sleeping railroad cars that changed the way people traveled. |
| "Roughing It" | Literary work by Mark Twain that detailed life on the frontier. |
| John Deere | Inventor of the Steel Plow |
| Cyrus Field | Lays the FIRST trans-Atlantic cable, connecting America to Europe. |
