Unit 4 US study guide – Flashcards
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Early 1800's British textile manufactures had what advantages over America competitors
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A large pool of cheap labor
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What was the experience of young women who worked in New England textile mills in the 1820's and 1830's
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They were able to save their wages for later use or to help out their families
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Transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, merchants, legislators, and created faster and cheaper ways to get the goods
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The market revolution
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Appearance of canals and steamboats in the US affected the flow of goods during the 1830s by
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Cutting one half of the travel and communication time
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What was the message of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography published in full in 1818
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Message was the way to success is by working hard/industrious man could become wealthy
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In 1830's most laborers in urban northeast lived in which type of residence
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Crowded border housing/tenements
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In the 1830's, Alexis de Tocqueville attributed what to this phenomenon? "It is a constant fact that the present day that ablest men in the US are rarely placed at the head of affairs"
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Democracy
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Why did several eastern states expanded suffrage in the 1810s
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They wanted to discourage westward migration
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Why did the New York state government fund the building of the Erie canal in 1817
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New York sought to link the Hudson river with the great lakes
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What were the three key elements of Clay's American system
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•Internal improvements •National bank •Protective tariffs
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Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the national Road in 1806
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To link midwestern settlers to the seaboard states
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What was the outcome of President John Quincy Adams support to creeks in treaty negotiations with the state of Georgia
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Georgia's Governor accused him as a public enemy and an ally of the savages
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Describe the experiences of free blacks in the 19th century
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North: low level education and low level jobs South: jobs as farmworkers, day laborers, and laundresses
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1832 ordinance of nullification was based on this belief
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States had the right to determine what law to follow
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Characterize the domestic slave trade in the 19th century
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Domestic market brought wealth to American traders
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On which issue was the whig philosophy of the 1830s critically different from that of the federalist in the 1790s
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Ruled by an elite based talent
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the turn individualism to describe American society in 1835
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Americans lived in social isolation, without ties to caste, class, associations
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What were the results of the Turner rebellion in the 1830s
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Slave rebellions resulted in stricter laws
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about this in his essays and lectures
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People should reject old conversations and focus on themselves and relationships in nature
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Purpose of Henry David Thoreau's book, Walden
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Spiritual search for meaning beyond artificially of civilized life
