Apush Chapter 14

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Samuel Slater

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Father of the Factory System”
learned of textile machinery when working in British factory‡ he escaped to U.S., was aided by Moses Brown and built 1st cotton thread spinner in the U.S. located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1791)

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Eli Whitney

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built a cotton gin (which was 50 times more effective than separating cotton seed by hand)
cotton economics were now profitable and saved the South with “King Cotton”
the South flourished and expanded the cotton kingdom westward

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Robert Fulton

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invented the first steamboat, the Clermont in 1807; steamboats were common by the 1830s
this caused an increase of U.S. trade because there was no concern for weather and water current
this contributed to the development of Southern and Western economie

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Samuel F.B. Morse

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Inventor of the first practical telegraph in 1837. His telegraph connected the business world when he asked, “What hath God wrought?”
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Catharine Beecher

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part of the cult of domesticity, she urged women to enter the teaching profession.
The vast majority of working women were single.

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Nativism

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is when the natives have prejudices against the immigrants. The nativists were older Americans who were prejudiced against newcomers in jobs, politics, and religion. This lead to the "The Order of the Star Spangled Banner"

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"Molly Maguires"

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Irish American society that helped the Irish Coal miners in Pennsylvania by forming a Union in the 1860s and 1870s

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Pony Express 1860

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speedy communication popped up from Missouri to California, in the Pony Express (going 2,000 miles in 10 days). Which was a mail system which was lead by different people riding different horses to spread news faster The Pony Express was short-lived though, lasting but 2 years, and was replaced by the telegraph wire.

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Commonwealth v. Hunt

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because of labor unions formed in the 1830s, and Panic of 1837 the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt in Massachusetts Supreme Court (1842) legalized unions for peaceful and honorable protest
however, the effectiveness of unions was small (due mostly to their threat of a strike was always undermined by the management’s ability to simply call in “scabs”, plentiful immigrants eager to work)

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Tammany Hall

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The new flow of immigrants soon became attracted to politics and gain control in office especially in New York's Tammany Hall. They dominated police departments and soon became an important vote.