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Ch. 11 Vocab ws

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Samuel Slater sailed to the United States under a false name. It was illegal for textile workers like him to leave the country. Britain wanted no other nation to copy its new machines for making thread and cloth.
Industrial Revolution in late 18th-century Britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work
factory system a method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building.
Lowell mills textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 1826.
interchangeable parts a part that is exactly like another part
Robert Fulton invented a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind
Samuel F. B. Morse first demonstrated his telegraph. This machine sent long and short pulses of electricity along a wire. These pulses could be translated into letters of a message
Eli Whitney invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793, after visiting the Georgia plantation of Catherine Greene, the widow of a Revolutionary War general. Mrs. Greene was struggling to make her plantation profitable.
cotton gin made the cotton-cleaning process far more efficient.
spirituals a religious folk song
Nat Turner The most famous rebellion was led by __________ in Virginia in 1831.
Nationalism is a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country
Henry Clay was a strong nationalist
American System a plan introduced in 1815 to make the United States economically self-sufficient.
Erie Canal completed in 1825, this waterway connected 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
Monroe Doctrine a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.
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