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CH 11 vocab AL
CH 11 vocab history
Question | Answer |
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Samuel Slater | He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine. |
Industrial Revolution | Change in technology |
factory system | A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building |
Lowell mills | Textile mill located in a factory town in Massachusetts that employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses |
interchangeable parts | Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing |
Robert Fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) |
Samuel F. B. Morse | Inventor of the telegraph |
Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) |
cotton gin | A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers |
spirituals | Religious folk songs |
Nat Turner | United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia |
nationalism | Pride in one's country |
Henry Clay | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) |
American System | An economic regime pioneered by Henry Clay which created a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building. This approach was intended to allow the United States to grow and prosper by themselves. |
Erie Canal | An artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo |
James Monroe | 5th president |
sectionalism | Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country |
Missouri Compromise | An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories |
Monroe Doctrine | An American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers |