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History 1301 Exam 3Adams-Onis Treaty - -(Transcontinental Treaty)
U.S. gives up claims to Texas and Spain cedes Florida to the U.S. and sets
boundary to the Pacific Ocean
-Convention of 1818 - -Between U.S. and Britain
49th Parallel set as northern boundary
Joint control of Oregon for 10 years
-Missouri Compromise - -1820
Missouri entered as a slave state, Main as a free state
Southern border of Missouri dividing line for future states
-Monroe Doctrine - -1823
U.S. announced that there would be no more European colonization
European nations were not to interfere in the Western hemisphere
-Clay's American System - -Economic program to benefit the country
proposed by Henry Clay in hopes of being elected as president
-Eli Whitney - -Invented the cotton gin
Introduced the concept of standardized/interchangeable parts
-John Deere - -Invented a steel plow that was much more durable than iron
plows
-Cyrus McCormick - -Invented a grain reaper that increased the rate of
planting and harvesting wheat
-Erie Canal - -364 miles long from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo on
Lake Erie.
Transformed the economy of upstate NY by cutting transportation costs
-Fulton's Folly - -Robert Fulton invented a steamboat call the Clermont
Made 2-way traffic possible on America's rivers
-National Road - -Also called Cumberland Road
Stretched from Baltimore to halfway across the state of Illinois
Built with federal money
-Samuel Morse - -Invented the telegraph and then Morse code as form of
communication
, -Cyrus Field - -Laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
-Pony Express - -Series of horseback riders who delivered mail relay style
between Missouri and California in 10 days time
Began in 1860 and lasted only a year because of the railroad and telegraph
-Samuel Slater - -Brought the design for a water frame that was power
operated to spin fiber into yarn
Built the first textile mill in American
-Frances Cabot Lowell - -Imitated British design for a power loom
Built first factory in America where spinning and weaving with power
machinery was under one roof
-Lowell Mills - -Textile community where women were hired to work and live
in dormitories
-Elias Howe - -Invented the sewing machine that became the foundation for
the ready-made clothing industry
-Robert Hoe - -Invented a power driven rotary printing press that lowered
the cost of printing and led to mass production of magazines, newspapers,
and books
-Penny Press - -Marketing technique where one copy of a newspaper was
sold for one cent instead of a subscription
-Gody's Lady's Book - -Women's magazine that set the fashion trend and
was the first to achieve mass distribution
-Micajah Pratt - -Introduced the concept of standardized parts to the shoe
industry
Began to mass produce shoes in about 1812
-Election of 1824 - -Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H.
Crawford (had a stroke), Henry Clay
Congress chose Adams between Jackson and Adams
Jackson thought there was a corrupt bargain between Adams and Clay
-Second Party System - -Democrats and Republicans who were later known
as Whigs
-Jacksonian Democracy - -Idea that common people would vote, hold office,
and run the government
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