What is a pioneer?
People going to frontier and pushing west: awful life
Who was the first conservationist?
George Caitlin (also a landscape painter)
ecological imperialism meaning
ruining land for resources (no remorse)
Biggest city by mid 1800s
NYC (NO = biggest in South, and Chicago = biggest in West)
Butcher shop capital?
Chicago
Who had the first sewage system?
Boston
Who had the first piped water
NYC
Why did immigrants come to the USA?
- better opportunity
- potato famine
- freedom of religion
What was a nativist?
someone who was in the USA before masses of immigrants came
NINA what does it mean
No Irish Need Apply
Who was the Irish coal mining union?
Molly Maguires
What did the Irish take over (job)
Policing
What were police wagons called?
Paddy Wagons
What did the Germans bring to the USA?
- rifle
- Christmas tree
- Kindergarten
- new wagon
They were abolitionists
What party formed for no more immigrants?
Know Nothing
fear of foreigners
xenophobia
father of American factory system
Samuel Slater
who came up with the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Where was most industrial booms
New England
what is a patent
something to claim an idea in the government database
scabs meaning
replace someone on strike who was fired
Commonwealth v. Hunt?
Made unions legal in Massachusetts
John Deere
tractors and invented steel plow
Cyrus McCormick
invented mechanical reaper
