Antebellum America Flashcards

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to Antebellum America, including industrialization, immigration, and transportation.

Era of Good Feelings

A period from 1815-1825 characterized by national unity and a sense of political harmony in the United States.

First sector of the American economy to industrialize

Textiles (cloth)

Where industrialization initially occurred

Northeast region of the U.S.

The first industrial workforce in the United States

Young women, children, immigrants

The ethnic groups who dominated the first great wave of Immigration (1790s-1870)

Irish and Germans

Immigrant settlement patterns

Urban/cities, particularly in the Northeast

Know-Nothing Party

Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic

The #1 cash crop in the U.S. after the War of 1812

Cotton

The invention from Eli Whitney that significantly increased cotton production

The cotton gin

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

Established that the U.S. would not allow European intervention in the Western Hemisphere.

Baltimore & Ohio RR

The first steam powered rail line in the U. S.

Location of the Erie Canal (1817-1825)

Upstate New York