AP US HISTORY
UNIT 3
Vocab/People/Events
Chapter 8 – Northern Transformations
The Backcountry
Changing System
The Erie Canal
Tenancy
The Transportation Revolution
The National Road
Robert Fulton – The Clermont – The Steamboat
The American System
Henry Clay
Early Industrial Revolution – Textile Mills
Samuel Slater
The Lowell Mill girls
The Rhode Island System vs. The Waltham System
Early American Railroads
Chapter 9 - The Old South 1790-1850
The Task System
The Lowcountry
The Cotton Belt
Yeoman
Gabriel’s Rebellion
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Eli Whitney / The Cotton Gin
“Internal Improvements”
Chapter 10 – Toward an American Culture
Charles Finney
Cult of Domesticity
Second Great Awakening
Joseph Smith
Blood Sports
Minstrelsy – Minstrel Shows
Dime Novels/Penny Press
Bible Belt
Mason-Dixon Line