American Pageant Chapter 14 Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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American Pageant Chapter 14 Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Industrial Revolution - Answer️️ -the shift, beginning in England during
the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine
"Self Reliance" (1841) - Answer️️ -Ralph Waldo Emmerson's popular
lecture-essay...
American Pageant Chapter 14 Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Industrial Revolution - Answer✔️✔️-the shift, beginning in England during
the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine
"Self Reliance" (1841) - Answer✔️✔️-Ralph Waldo Emmerson's popular
lecture-essay that reflected the spirit of individualism pervasive in
American popular culture during the 1830's.
Limited Liability - Answer✔️✔️-legal principle that facilitates capital
investment by offering protection for individual investors, who, in cases of
legal claims for bankruptcy, cannot be held responsible for more than the
value of there individual shares.
Rendezvous - Answer✔️✔️-The principal marketplace of the Northwest fur
trade, which peaked in the 1820s and 1830s. Each summer, traders set up
camps in the Rocky Mountains to exchange manufactured goods for beaver
pelts.
Commonwealth vs. Hunt (1842) - Answer✔️✔️-Massachusetts Supreme
Court decision that strengthened the labor movement by upholding the
legality of unions.
Ecological Imperialism - Answer✔️✔️-Historians' term for the spoliation of
Western natural resources through excessive hunting, logging, mining and
grazing
Cult of Domesticity - Answer✔️✔️-Pervasive nineteenth-century cultural
creed that venerated the domestic role of women. It gave married women
greater authority to shape home life but limited opportunities outside the
domestic sphere.
McCormick reaper (1831) - Answer✔️✔️-Mechanized the harvest of grains,
such as wear, allowing farmers to cultivate larger plots. The introduction of
the reaper in the 1830s fueled the establishment of large scale commercial
agriculture in the Midwest.
Turnpike - Answer✔️✔️-privately funded, toll-based public road
constructed in the early nineteenth century to facilitate commerce.
Eerie canal - Answer✔️✔️-A historic canal that connects the Hudson River at
Albany in eastern New York with the Niagara River and the Great Lakes. It
opened in 1825.
Molly Maguires (1860s-1870s) - Answer✔️✔️-Secret organization of Irish
miners that campaigned, at times violently, against poor working
conditions in the PA mines
Ancient Order of Hibernians (mid 1800s) - Answer✔️✔️-Irish semi-secret
society that served as a benevolent organization for down-trodden Irish
immigrants in the U..S.
Pony Express (1860-1861) - Answer✔️✔️-Short-lived, speedy mail service
between Missouri and California that relied on lightweight riders galloping
between closely place outposts.
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