Chapter 14 Flashcards

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1
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What is a pioneer?

A

People going to frontier and pushing west: awful life

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2
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Who was the first conservationist?

A

George Caitlin (also a landscape painter)

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3
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ecological imperialism meaning

A

ruining land for resources (no remorse)

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4
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Biggest city by mid 1800s

A

NYC (NO = biggest in South, and Chicago = biggest in West)

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5
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Butcher shop capital?

A

Chicago

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6
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Who had the first sewage system?

A

Boston

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7
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Who had the first piped water

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NYC

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8
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Why did immigrants come to the USA?

A
  1. better opportunity
  2. potato famine
  3. freedom of religion
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9
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What was a nativist?

A

someone who was in the USA before masses of immigrants came

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10
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NINA what does it mean

A

No Irish Need Apply

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11
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Who was the Irish coal mining union?

A

Molly Maguires

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12
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What did the Irish take over (job)

A

Policing

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13
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What were police wagons called?

A

Paddy Wagons

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14
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What did the Germans bring to the USA?

A
  1. rifle
  2. Christmas tree
  3. Kindergarten
  4. new wagon
    They were abolitionists
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15
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What party formed for no more immigrants?

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Know Nothing

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16
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fear of foreigners

17
Q

father of American factory system

A

Samuel Slater

18
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who came up with the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

19
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Where was most industrial booms

20
Q

what is a patent

A

something to claim an idea in the government database

21
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scabs meaning

A

replace someone on strike who was fired

22
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Commonwealth v. Hunt?

A

Made unions legal in Massachusetts

23
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John Deere

A

tractors and invented steel plow

24
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Cyrus McCormick

A

invented mechanical reaper

25
where could women work in the mid 1800s
textile factories, nurses, teachers
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Cult of Domesticity
"You're suppose to do women's work" all the way til the 50s
27
Turnpike
MD needed 1st, spike go flat if pay
28
Who invented the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
29
Pony Express?
Mail by horse, telegraph destroyed it
30
What is a Market Revolution?
manufacture and sell, no longer reliant on agriculture
31
Antebellum meaning?
Pre-civil war era