Return to Homepage.
Michael Kadish
11/24/95
.2
1) SAMUEL SLATER: In 1791 escaped to America and created the first major American textile mill from memory. Brought the Industrial Revolution over the Atlantic.
2) CYRUS McCORMICK: Invented the mower-reaper, McCormick reaper in the 18930's that helped the western migration.
3) ELI WHITNEY: Created the cotton gin and moving parts in 1793. Lead to the cotton boom and decreased the work exponentialy giving the south a quick profit maker.
4) CARL SCHURTZ: One of the many German immigrants from 1830 to 1860, he was a loud common man speaker. He believed strongly and assisted in the abolitionist movement, exposing scandels, and he enriched the American lifestyle.
5) ROBERT FULTON: Invented the steam engine in 1807. Greatly enhanced public and private travel. Improved trade between states and between continenents.
6) SAMUEL F. B. MORSE: Created morse code and the telegraph. Set up in 1844, he lead to near instant communication and a closer feeling between the states.
7) DeWITT CLINTON: New York governor who inspired greater trade and travel to his state in 1817 by starting construction the Erie Canal, connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River.
8) CATHERINE BEECHER: Sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, she became a spokesman for teaching, during the middle half of the last century, urging women to join.
9) INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Started in America in the 1790's it set a new path for the nation, with new strives in communication, travel, agriculture, and manufacturing. Brought America up to speed with the European manufacturers.
10) LIMITED LIABILITY:
11) TRANSORTATION REVOLUTION: Started with Fulton and Clinton and increased the travel and trade in thecountry in the early 1800's.
12) NATIVISM: A strong feeling shared by the soon to be Know-Nothing-Party, that strongly favored the Americans over the immigrants and thought that the immigrants would destroy the country.
13) CULT OF DOMESTICITY: The moral value of the 1850's that held housewives on a pedestal, and kept them as the symbiol of American power.
14) COTTON GIN: Invented by Whitney in 1793, this brought the south to power with a quick and more effective cash crop. For so long before the machine was built the process involved in making cotton was a long and tedious effort, cotton was consequently expensive. When the cotton -engine was introduced, the prices remained high giving the south a boost.
15) CLERMONT: Fulton's personal steamboat, he tried to introduce the concept of steam engines into travel. Was met with scorn until it went 150 miles in 32 hours.
16) BOSTON ASSOCIATES:
17) CLIPPER SHIPS: Small swift ships that brought goods to point B in records time. Carried gold diggers to CA and handled the tea trade. Died out with the advent of the steam engine
18) ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS: A semisecret society of Irishmen to fight all of the evils facing Irishmen. It also helped the miners' unions creating the Molly Maguires and helped the downtrodden.
19) MOLLY MAGUIRES: "A shadowy miners' union that rocked the PA coal districts in the 1860's and '70's"
20) PONY EXPRESS: An eighteen month business venture in 1860 that sent mail from St. Joseph MO., to Sacramento, CA, it was successful in its mission, but not as a business venture. It folded with the advent of the Telegraph.
21) TAMMANY HALL: Political machine in the mid 1800's in NYC that began letting Irishmen have jobs.
22) GENERAL INCORPORATION LAWS:
23) ORDER OF THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER: Beginning of the Know-Nothing- Party, They were strong nativists and felt that strong limitations should be placed on immigrants. They were afraid that the immigrants would take over the country.
24) COMMONWEALTH VS. HUNT: Supreme court decision that in 1843 that decided labor unions were legal. This brought about a change that made unions legal, brought legalized strikes, child laws, and minimum wage.