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De Witt Clinton

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The leader of government officials who came up with the plan to link New York City with the Great Lakes region.

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Minstrel Show

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1830's, Black-face painted performers, stereo-typed slaves.

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public land

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Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships, six miles on a side. Each of these townships was sub-divided into thirty-six sections of one square mile or 640 acres. Given to railroad companies to assist in establishing railroad lines.

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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1844 received a patent for a "talking wire" or telegraph. Ran it from Washington D.C. to Baltimore.

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Sarah Bagley

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Organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.

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Trunk Lines

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Major railroads connected to outlying areas by feeder or branch lines.

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P.T. Barnum

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American showman, businessman, and circus owner.

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Factory System

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A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building.

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Shakespeare

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A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.

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Godey's Lady's Book

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First fashion publication.

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De-Skilling

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Subdivision of low-level jobs into small, highly specific tasks requiring less skilled employees.

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Vulcanizing rubber

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Charles Goodyear. Treating it to give it greater strength.

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Machine Tools

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Machinery that produces parts that are exactly alike.

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Elias Howe

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American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home.

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Turnpike Era

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Time during 1790s to 1820s where most Americans relied on roads for internal transportation.

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Commonwealth v. Hunt

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Massachusetts supreme court case that ruled that labor unions were not illegal conspiracies.

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Charles Goodyear

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Invented vulcanized rubber.

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Chicago

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Railroad center of the West by the 1850's.

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Cyrus H. McCormick

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Invented the reaper, a tool which drastically increased the rate at which one could harvest wheat or grain.

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Associated Press

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Founded in 1848,Allows media outlets to buy stories, do not have to send reporters to every major city, able to offer readers more recent news, stories are pretty unbiased because trying to appeal to many media outlets and sell as many stories as possible.

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Market Economy

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Economic decisions are made by individuals or the open market.

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Victorian

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Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people.

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Cult of Domesticity

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Idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands.

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Know-Nothings

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Anti-immigrant (also known as nativist) political movement of the 1840s and 1850s.

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Erie Canal

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An artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie.

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Lowell System

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Created to enticing rural New England women to work in textile mills.

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Central Park

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This was intended to soothe the inhabitants of New York City and let them enjoy a "natural setting."

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Nativism

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A preference fro native-born people and a desire to limit immigration.

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Immigration of 1840's

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1.5 million Europeans moved to America.

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telegraph

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A device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.

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Regional Divergences

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North-industrial and South-agricultural. Transforming and dividing America.

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sewing machine

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This machine was invented in 1846 by Elias Howe and Isaac Singer and made sewing clothes faster and easier.

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Old Northwest

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Region north and west of the Ohio River, included Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, MIchigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.

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