| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Author of "Self Reliance" |
| Rendezvous system | traders would meet an agreed destination to trade goods with each other. |
| Ecological imperialism | the agressive and often heedless exploitation of the West's natural bounty. |
| George Caitlin | a painter and a student of Native American Life who proposede the creation of a national park. |
| Molly Maguires | a shadowy Irish miners' union that rocked Pennsylvania coal districts in 1860s and 1870s. |
| Know-Nothing Party | developed from the Order of the Star Spangled Banner that oppossed the arrival of the immigrants. |
| Samuel Slater | "The Father of the Factory System" memorized the plans for machinery in Britain and introduced them into America. |
| Factory system | the economy based on maunfacturing goods using machines in factories. |
| Industrial revolution | the spread of factories and developement of various machines that improved manufacturing industry. |
| Eli Whitney | creator of the cotton gin and the mass production of firearms. |
| Elias Howe | inventor of the sewing machine, |
| Isaac Singer | perfected the sewing machine. |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph that allowed communication over long distances. |
| Commonwealth v. Hunt | the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that labor unions were not illegal provided that their methods were "honorable and peaceful" |
| Cult of domesticity | a widespread cultural creed that that glorified the customary functions of the homemaker. |
| Deere's Steel Plow | invented by JOhn Deere allowed for the plowing to be done quickly and efficiently being able to be pulled by horses. |
| McCormick's Mower-Reaper | horse drawn machine that cleared land for farming quickly. |
| Lancaster Turnpike | broad, hard surfaced highway that thrust 62 miles westward from Philadelphia to Lancaster where a tollgate allowed those who payed for the pikes to turn to let you through. |
| National (Cumberland) Road | highway that strecthed from Cumberland to in Maryland to Vandalia in Illinois a distance of 591 miles. |
| Robert Fulton | Inventor of the steam engine. |
| The Clermont | The first steamboat that churned steadily fromNew York City up to Albany. |
| Dewitt Clinton | Planner of the Erie Canal. |
| The Savannah | a pioneer American steamer that crept across the Atlantic in 1819. |
| Market economy | an economy of national networks of industry and commerce. |
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