Chapter 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 New England Clock | This item was often bought by people who didn't need it in order to show off their wealth |
| The Market Revolution | the transformation in attitudes about production, commerce, and consumption, as well as in the modes of transportation that facilitates these things. |
| Industrial Revolution | transformation in the modes of production as well as in the relationship between workers/work and owners/managers/workers |
| The Transportation Revolution | New modes of moving goods and people aroused out of response to the industrial revolution |
| Samuel Slater | This man had a photographic memory and memorized the plans for textile mills in England and brought them back to the U.S. |
| Moses Brown | He provided the capitol to build the textile mill memorized by Samuel Slater |
| Pautucket, RI | The site of the first textile mill in the U.S. established by Moses Brown and Samuel Slater |
| Cottage Industry | The practice of a wife and her daughters sewing clothes in their own house |
| Boston Associates, INC | This group of investors came together to establish a textile mill in the U.S. |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | Emigrated to England where he worked in a factory and then returned to the US to start a textile mill w/ Boston Associates, INC |
| Boston Manufacturing Company | Established a series mill on the rivers North of Boston, closer to the fall line |
| Paternalism | the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good |
| Know-Nothing Party | A group of nationalists who were famous for the secrecy they kept |
| Xenophobia | A fear of immigrants |
| Trousseau | the possessions, such as clothing & linens, that a bride assembles for her marriage. |
| Nativism | The concept that people born in the states are superior |
| New York Stock and Board Exchange | The grandfather of the NYSE, was a marketplace for purchasing bits of corporations |
| Sea Island Cotton | This brand of cotton has seeds that are easier to remove but is restricted by where it can be grown |
| Upland Cotton | The seeds are harder to remove from this cotton but it can be planted in more places |
| The Peculiar Institution | Southerner's term for slavery |
| Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney modified a tool that worked with sea island cotton so that it would work with upland cotton |
| Slave Codes | These laws applied to slaves in the South |
| Colonization Movement | The effort to send free blacks back to Africa |
| Paul Cuffe | An early black advocate for colonization |
| Richard Allen | Vehemently opposed colonization and saw it as surrendering to the white man, bishop of African Methodist Church |
| American Colonization Society | A group fighting for colonization who established Liberia |
| Sierra Leon and Liberia | Countries in Africa where free black from America are sent |
| African Methodist Church | A black church in the United States led by Richard Allen |
| Conestoga Wagon | A covered mode of transportation driven by horses |
| Turnpikes | Roads built by private companies in the absence of public roads |
| Clermont | The first steamboat, built by Robert Fulton |
| Erie Canal | This waterway linked the Hudson River to lake Erie and was the brainchild of DeWitt Clinton |
| DeWitt Clinton | Th Governor of New York who pushed for and oversaw the construction of the Erie Canal |
| Marbury v Madison | Established the doctrine of judicial review |
| Fletcher v Peck | Marshall rules that Georgia can't void the Yazoo Land Act of 1795, this ruling extends judicial review to state laws/actions |
| Dartmouth College v Woodward | Marshall rules that New Hampshire can not change the charter of Dartmouth College to make it public |
| McCulloch v Maryland | Marshall rules that Maryland can not tax the BUS because federal laws overrule state laws, this ruling affirms judicial review |
| Gibbons v Ogden | New York tries to grant a monopoly on the ferry business between New York and New Jersey but Marshall enforces the federal governments right to regulate interstate commerce |
| The Cherokee Cases: Cherokee Nation v Georgia, Worcester v Georgia | First Marshall rules that the Cherokee nation doesn't have standing because they are a domestic dependent nation, then he modifies his position and says states can't modify the Cherokee's boundaries because that power is reserved for congress |
| Charles River Bridge | Taney ruled that Massachusetts had the right to grant a charter to the Charles River Bridge Company because the legislature didn't grant exclusive rights to the Warren Bridge Company |
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