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American System of Manufacturing
1851, Europeans had started to refer to manufacture by interchangable parts
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Samuel Colt
Invented the revolving pistol
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Illinois Central Railroad
Had more track than any other railroad in 1855
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New York Stock Exchange
The securities of all the leading railroads were traded on the floor in 1850, and railroads turned NY into the modern investment firm
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Rococo
Families in middle and upper class prefered an ornate furniture style name Rococo
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Row Houses
Typical narrow and long, row houses were practical responses to rising urban land values
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Epidemics
Yellow fever and Cholera killed 1/5 of New Orlean's population in 1823-1833, cholera= 10% of St. Louis population in 1849
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Phrenology
Imported from Europe, rested on the idea that human mind comprised 37 distinct faculties
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Minstrel shows
Arose in northen cities in the 1840's when white men in blackface took to the stage to present an evening of songs, dances, and humorous sketches
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P.T. Barnum
Newspaper called Herald of Freedom, a career in popular entertainment
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James Fenimore Cooper
Was the first important figure in the literary upsurge
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerged in the late 1830's as the most influential spokesman for American literary nationalism, leading transcendetalism
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Henry David Thoreau
Wrote Civil Disobedience and Walden
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Walt Whitman
Wrote Leaves of Grass
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (fiction)
Wrote the Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables and Marble Faun
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Edgar Allen Poe (poetry and fiction)
Wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Cask of Amontillado
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Herman Melville (fiction)
Wrote Mardi and Moby-Dick
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