Things that contributed to american industrial revolution organization transportation communication population When did importing slaves become illegal 1808 After when did immigration from Ireland start (before very little immigration) 1830 Time with huge immigration, population growth, and rapidly expanding cities 1840-1860 Idea where immigrants are worse than native-born Americans nativism Group that fears immigrants and tries to remove catholics from government (originally Order of the Star-Spangled Banner) know-nothings Where did the Know-Nothings (now political party) win control Massachussetts Device that went in canals steamboat Government canal construction project that made Northern farmers unable to compete with Western/southern Erie Canal Thing that followed canals as major method of bulk transportation railroads Where did railroad funding come from federal government By when were railraods dominant 1860 What did railroads due to Northwest dependence on the South lessen Method that took over long-distance communication, revolutionizing business organization (with fast railroads) telegraph Groups that benefitted from telegraph railroads newspapers New business organization that took over large businesses corporation Primary job in Northeast factory system Idea that revolutionized manufacturing interchangeable tools Major american inventor products goodyear howe-singer Elite group in Northeast that financed early factories merchant capitalists System where young women are recruited for factory, payed well, and after a few years they go and start families Lowell system Waltham system In what year do factories start switching from women to lower-payed Irish immigrants 1840 Union between skilled artisans to keep their businesses National Trades' Union Court case where unions & strikes made legal Commonwealth v. Hunt Homeless people in cities called paupers Thing that helped minimize discontent between very unequal social classes social mobility Another mobility that was important in reducing discontent Geographic mobility Most influential and fastest growing class in America middle class Major home device for middle class in 1840s for cooking cast-iron stove Distinction between what two things emerged because of industrial revolution family work Idea where women only worry about fashion and homekeeping and get more material wealth but less intellectual wealth cult of domesticity Thing that emerged in cities because of the little free time industrial workers had public leisure Person who made very successful freak shows P.T. Barnum Place where farming primarily took Place midwest Inventions by john doe and mccormick in agricultural tools steel plow reaper thresher Thing that drew together and dominated farm communities religion