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- Most German immigrants in the 1850s were Jewish.
- By 1900, the "household" economy had given way to a market economy.
- Immigration into the United States:- was very popular up until the War of 1812.- increased most during the period from 1845 to 1854. - declined when the cost of passage on ships increased to as much as $300 per passenger. - brought more Italians and Chinese than any other ethnic group prior to the Civil War.
- In Commonwealth v. Hunt, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all labor unions illegal.
- By 1860, Catholicism was the largest religious denomination in the United States.
- In the Lowell system, mill owners preferred to use women in part because of the lower wages they commanded.
- Developments in transportation usually occurred in which order?- railroads, flatboats, canals, and turnpikes- turnpikes, steamboats, canals, and railroads - turnpikes, canals, flatboats, and steamboats - canals, turnpikes, railroads, and steamboats
- Middle-class women in the early nineteenth century:- still worked primarily in the home. - had equal pay with men as teachers. - were welcomed into the field of medicine. - were discouraged from taking active roles to reform society.
- As a result of the invention of the cotton gin, Maryland and Virginia slaves were:- in higher demand due to the increase in cotton grown in those states. - put on a path to freedom since there was no more demand for their labor.- often sold to owners in newly opened cotton-growing states like Alabama and Mississippi. - often transferred from tobacco plantations to cotton plantations in the same state.
- The first successful steamboat was used on the Mississippi River in between New Orleans and Memphis.
- During the growth of internal improvement, the federal government:- financed the construction of the Erie Canal.- bought stock in, and gave land grants to, some transportation companies. - left all governmental assistance up to the individual states. - built some demonstration roads, canals, and railroads.
- Many northerners were angry with the Supreme Court over this case because it never allowed Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories.
- In 1856 this party showed amazing strength for being a new party.
- The sacking to this town by proslavery supporters started a conflict in Kansas in 1856.
- Preston Brooks, exemplifying the dangerous division between North and South on the issue of slavery physically beat this man on the floor of the Senate.
- In 1858 this group believed that the North was filled with "Brown loving" Republicans.
- This event in California threatened to destroy the balance between free and slave states in the Senate.
- A mechanical reaper to harvest grain was invented by: - Samuel F. B. Morse. - John Deere. - Eli Whitney.- Cyrus Hall McCormick
- The Mexican Cession threatened to split the nation over this issue.
- This political party's greatest issue was that slavery took away jobs.