Apush Ch. 14

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-immigrants who:
-Lutheran
-Extremely against slavery
-heavy drinkers, helping start the temperance movement
-kept to themselves, trying to preserve their culture

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Germans

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-Political party of nativists
-immigrants were uneducated, poor, non-democratic, sometimes Catholic, and willing to work for cheap
-made the labor crusade much harder

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know-nothings

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-revolution of industry caused by:
-cheap land, making people migrate west?
-Immigrants provided plentiful labor
-Raw materials
-Many consumers

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Industrial Revolution

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-created by Eli Whitney
-caused the south to expand its cotton production and need for slaves
-caused the north to increase factories for spinning and weaving

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Cotton gin

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-created by Eli Whitney
-when a part of a machine broke, you could easily replace the part with an identical part

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interchangeable parts

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-created by Elias Howe and Isaac Singer

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Sewing machine

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-companies ensured that their investors could only lose what they had invested into the company

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limited liability corporation

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-created by Samuel Morse
-provided instant communication

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Telegraph

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-supreme court case which legalized labor unions

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Commonwealth vs. Hunt

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-corporation well known for employing young single women in its factories
-they lived in dorm rooms and were strictly watched over

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Lowell, Mass

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-leading proponent who pushed for women to enter teaching

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Catharine Beecher

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-created by John Deere
-enabled farmers to cut into hard but fertile midwestern soil

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steel plow

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-Cyrus McCormick
-enabled farmers to harvest grains such as wheat

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Mechanical mower-reaper

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-Canal which had the effects of:
-drastically cheapening shipping from the west to the east
-Stole most of the trade from the Mississippi
-Western cities boomed

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Erie Canal