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Ch.#11
Ch.11 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Samuel Slater | An englishman who sailed to the US under a false name because it was illegal for textile workers to leave the country in 1789 |
| Industrial Revolution | A time when factory machines began to replace hand tools and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
| factory system | Brought many workers and machines together under one roof because people left their farms to go work in the big cities |
| Lowell Mills | textile mills in the village that were created by Cabot Lowell and hired farm girls |
| interchangeable parts | parts that are exactly alike |
| Robert Fulton | The man who invented a steam boat that could move against the current or strong winds. |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | The man who invented the telegraph, a machine that could send long and short pulses of electricity over along a wire |
| Eli Whitney | The man who invented the cotton gin in order to clean cotton |
| cotton gin | (gin is short for engine)a machine that made cotton cleaning process far more efficient |
| spirituals | religous folk songs |
| Nat Turner | an African American who led a famous rebellion in Virginia, 1831 |
| nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness towards one's country |
| Henry Clay | a Kentucky nationalist who planned to strengthen the country and unify the regions |
| American System | an 1815 plan presented by Madison and promoted by Clay to make the US more self-sufficent without relying on foreign trade |
| Erie Canal | a massive canal that made a water route between New York City and Buffalo, New York and was completed in 1825 |
| James Monroe | a Democratic-Republican who won the presidency of of 1816 by a massive amount of votes |
| sectionalism | loyalty to the interests of your region rather than to the nation as a whole |
| Missouri Compromise | Clay's plan to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
| Monroe Doctrine | a December 1823 statement issued by Pres. Monroe about European colonization, US was out of foreign affairs, and made the US a world power and protector of Latin America |
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