APUSH Chapter 14 Question Review

APUSH-CH14-06 Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Hunt

A case in which the Supreme Court decided that labor unions are not illegal conspiracies, as long as their methods are "honorable and peaceful."

APUSH-CH14-07 Lowell System

A factory order that managed the girls in a strict manner. They would work six days a week, forbidden to form a union, could not share complaints.

APUSH-CH14-03 Know-Nothing Party

A secret party which developed from the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. They posed for rigid restrictions on immigration and naturalization and for laws authorizing deportation of aliens.

APUSH-CH14-08 Cult of Domesticity

A widespread cultural creed that glorified the customary functions of the homemaker. Married women held immense power in being able to control the morals of a household.

APUSH-CH14-04 Eli Whitney - two inventions, importance of each

Cotton gin - extended the use of slavery because cotton became so much easier to pick and clean. Began the start of the Cotton Kingdom. Interchangeable Parts - made standardized parts for guns and other manufactured goods, which made it much easier to repair and replace parts.

APUSH-CH14-05 Labor unions - factors that restricted growth

Hours for the workers were long, meals were insufficient, buildings were unsanitary. Child labor was highly exploited.

APUSH-CH14-09 Erie Canal - importance

It skyrocketed the importance of urban cities, and it attracted European immigrants to lands in America. Food prices dropped, and some New Englanders moved elsewhere and did manufacturing, assisting the Industrial Revolution.

APUSH-CH14-02 Nativism - reasons for

Some people believed that Catholic was becoming established at the expense of Protestantism.

APUSH-CH14-01. Immigrants during first half of 1800s - where from, why they came, where they settled, influence

The two main immigrants were the Irish and the Germans. The Irish came in multitudes during the Potato Famine, a time when Ireland's main food source completely became rotten. Because the Irish did not come the U.S. with enough money to buy land, they mostly remained in the northeastern port cities. They became a negative influence on Protestant communities who saw the Catholic Irish as a group who were trying to upstart Protestantism and replace it with Catholicism. The Germans came because they wanted to escape the autocratic clutches of Europe. They settled mainly in lush lands of the Middle West. They contributed such things as the Christmas tree, kindergarten, the Conestoga wagon, the Kentucky rifle.

APUSH-CH14-10 Communication innovations first half of 1800s

There was the invention of the railroad and the train which boosted transportation of goods. Not only that there was also the telegraph invented by Samuel Morse, and the steam boat which could sail against winds and downstream currents.