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Chapter 11 Vocab
History
Term | Definition |
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Samuel Slater | sailed to the Untied States under a false name. |
Industrial Revolution | factory machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main work. |
Factory System | brought many workers and machines together under one roof. |
Lowell Mills | textile mills in the village, employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses. |
Interchangeable Pats | parts that are exactly alike. |
Robert Fulton | invented a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind. |
Samuel F.B. Morse | first demonstrated his telegraph. |
Eli Whitney | invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793, after visiting the Georgia plantation of Catherine Greene, the widow of the Revolutionary War general. |
Cotton Gin | (short for engine) made the cotton-cleaning proess far more efficient. |
Spirituals | religious folk songs. |
Nat Turner | in Virginia 1831 led the most famous rebellion. |
Natioalism | is a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward our country. |
Henry Clay | was from Kentucky and was a strong nationalist. |
American System | included three men. |
Erie Canal | created a water route between New York City and Buffalo, New York. |
James Monroe | won the presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes. |
Sectionalism | is loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole. |
Missouri Compromise | in 1820 it kept the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states and the free states. |
Monroe Doctrine | said that the Americans were closed to further colonization. |