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Ch.11 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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An Englishman who went to the U.S. under a fake name to create a water-powered textile mill. | Samuel Slater |
A time in the U.S. where machines and manufacturing replaced hand tools and farming. | Industrial Revolution |
A system where machines and workers would work in one area, usually near a river which was a factory. | factory system |
Mills in the town Lowell created by Francis Lowell that hired young women, produced cloth from cotton, and were successful. | Lowell mills |
A method of manufacturing where all parts are alike so a product can have only one part replaced. | interchangeable parts |
A man who invented a steamboat that could move against a current or strong wind in 1807. | Robert Fulton |
A man who created the telegraph with Morse code to communicate long distances in 1837. | Samuel F. B. Morse |
Developed the cotton gin in 1793 and introduced interchangeable parts to Congress in 1801. | Eli Whitney |
Cleaned cotton efficiently and resulted in a boom in cotton exports and plantation expansions. | cotton gin |
Religious folk songs sang by slaves to express religious beliefs. | spirituals |
A slave who led an armed rebellion in Virginia in August 21, 1831 and killed 55 whites-whites bring revenge in new laws and murder. | Nat Turner |
A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country. | nationalism |
A representative from Kentucky who was a strong nationalist and stated that America should be self-sufficient. | Henry Clay |
A economic plan promoted by Clay and proposed by Pres. Madison in 1815 -tariffs, national bank, transportation. | American System |
A canal created in 1825 that connected New York City and Buffalo, NY-opened trade/settlement and encouraged nationalism. | Erie Canal |
President, won election in 1816 with a majority vote and was a D/R. Administration is Era of Good Feelings. | James Monroe |
Loyalty to the interests of your own region, rather than your nation. | sectionalism |
A compromise by Clay in 1820 that balanced Senate power by abmitting Maine as free, Missouri as slave-set north of 36° 30' in Louisiana Purchase as free. | Missouri Compromise |
December 1823, Monroe issued statement that closed Americas to colonization, showed that America considered itself a world power. | Monroe Doctrine |