Chp 14.1 Forging the National Economy
questions and answers
Emerald Isle
Because its vegetation is a brilliant green for most of the year, Ireland is nicknamed the
______ ____.
Irish Potato Famine
A famine in 1845 when the main crop of Ireland, potatoes, was destroyed by disease.
Full screen
"Black Forties"
The time in Ireland when the potato crop failed resulting in about 2 million people to parish
causing people to flee the land.
No Irish Need Apply - NINA
Mid 1800s, US, it was an act of Nativism because people didn't like the Irish and thought that
they were taking American jobs so they segregated against them.
Ancient Order Hibernians
Semi-secret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in
American.
German Immigrants
These European immigrants were a major non-English group to settle in the American
colonies.
"nativists"
They rallied for political action, and tried rigid immigration restrictions.
The Know Nothing Party
An anti-Catholic Nativist Party that demanded literacy tests as a requirement for immigration.
When asked about their party, they would reply " I know nothing."
Samuel Slater
English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, he is considered the
founder of the American cotton industry.
, Eli Whitney
A mechanical genius who invented the cotton gin, which was machine that separated the
cotton from the seed.
King Cotton
Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic
dominance of Southern cotton industry.
Embargo Act
1807 act which ended all of America's importation and exportation.
Elias Howe
Howe invented the sewing machine in 1845 and patented it in 1846.
Issac Singer
Helped Howe perfect the sewing machine by making it quicker and brought it to middle class
families and large manufacturers.
Samuel Morse
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code.
Morse Code
A system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the
letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation.
Wage Slaves
Engels's theory that people are working like slaves; factory work is disguised to not look like
slavery, but the wages are so low that people are basically slaves; workers are slaves to
machines.
Kentucky Bluegrass
Nickname for European bluegrass that thrived in Kentucky, ideal pasture for livestock thus
luring thousands of pioneers into the west.
Urban Growth
Three ways a city can grow in population: 1) when immigration is greater than outer
migration 2) when the birth rate is higher than the death rate 3) annexation.
questions and answers
Emerald Isle
Because its vegetation is a brilliant green for most of the year, Ireland is nicknamed the
______ ____.
Irish Potato Famine
A famine in 1845 when the main crop of Ireland, potatoes, was destroyed by disease.
Full screen
"Black Forties"
The time in Ireland when the potato crop failed resulting in about 2 million people to parish
causing people to flee the land.
No Irish Need Apply - NINA
Mid 1800s, US, it was an act of Nativism because people didn't like the Irish and thought that
they were taking American jobs so they segregated against them.
Ancient Order Hibernians
Semi-secret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in
American.
German Immigrants
These European immigrants were a major non-English group to settle in the American
colonies.
"nativists"
They rallied for political action, and tried rigid immigration restrictions.
The Know Nothing Party
An anti-Catholic Nativist Party that demanded literacy tests as a requirement for immigration.
When asked about their party, they would reply " I know nothing."
Samuel Slater
English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, he is considered the
founder of the American cotton industry.
, Eli Whitney
A mechanical genius who invented the cotton gin, which was machine that separated the
cotton from the seed.
King Cotton
Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic
dominance of Southern cotton industry.
Embargo Act
1807 act which ended all of America's importation and exportation.
Elias Howe
Howe invented the sewing machine in 1845 and patented it in 1846.
Issac Singer
Helped Howe perfect the sewing machine by making it quicker and brought it to middle class
families and large manufacturers.
Samuel Morse
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code.
Morse Code
A system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the
letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation.
Wage Slaves
Engels's theory that people are working like slaves; factory work is disguised to not look like
slavery, but the wages are so low that people are basically slaves; workers are slaves to
machines.
Kentucky Bluegrass
Nickname for European bluegrass that thrived in Kentucky, ideal pasture for livestock thus
luring thousands of pioneers into the west.
Urban Growth
Three ways a city can grow in population: 1) when immigration is greater than outer
migration 2) when the birth rate is higher than the death rate 3) annexation.
