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| process that produced identical parts of a machine, allowing much faster assembly | interchangeable parts
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| inventor of cotton gin, mass produces guns using water power | Eli Whitney
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| inventor of the first large-scale steamboat, the Clermont | Robert Fulton
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| efficient production of large numbers of identical goods | mass production
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| inventor of the steel plow blade | John Deere
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| period of rapid growth in speed and convenience - led by steamboat and steam locomotive | Transportation Revolution
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| invention for much faster cleaning of the South's biggest cash crop (thanks Eli!) - increases production, game-changer | cotton gin
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| invention (device) that sends information instantly over long distances | telegraph
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| developed by A.L. Vail - uses dots and dashes to communicate | Morse code
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| passionate about prison reform | Dorothea Dix
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| leading preaching in Second Great Awakening - former lawyer who will lead huge revivals | Charles Finney
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| Christian revival movement in the 1820s - 30s; sparks social reforms in alcohol, prison, education, slavery, women's rights | Second Great Awakening
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| urged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor | temperance movement
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| leads failed slave revolt, captured and killed, leads to stricter laws for slaves in South | Nat Turner
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| movement to end slavery | abolition
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| Giants closer - "Fear the Beard" | Brian Wilson
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| outspoken leader of anti-slavery movement, publishes The Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison
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| escaped slave called by God to preach about slavery and women's rights, fiery and dramatic speeches: "Ain't I a Woman?" | Sojourner Truth
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| escaped slave who leads over 300 to freedom, $40,000 reward for capture | Harriet Tubman
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| network of people and hiding places to aid fugitive slaves | Underground Railroad
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| brilliant escaped slave, self-taught orator and publisher of The North Star | Frederick Douglass
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| a right women fought for - the right to vote | suffrage
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| leader in the women's rights movement - wrote speeches and helped write the Declaration of Sentiments (Seneca Falls Conv.) | Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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| idea of Stephen Douglas - permits slavery in territories upon vote of citizens, because political authority belongs to the people | popular sovereignty
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| H.B. Stowe wrote this emotional anti-slavery novel drawn from real stories; convinces many of the evils of slavery | Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| Henry Clay (again0 creates a deal where California enters as a free state, but rest of Mexican Cession is open to slavery | Compromise of 1850
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| popular sovereignty in this territory led to much violence - undeclared Civil War - slave or free? | "Bleeding Kansas"
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| organizer and outspoken speech deliverer of the Women's Rights Movement - honored on a coin | Susan B. Anthony
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| group dedicated to stopping the spread of slavery into the new territories | Republican Party
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| law intended to punish Underground Railroad conductors and return escaped slaves; part of Compromise of 1859; hated by Northerners | Fugitive Slave Act
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| reluctant president of a newly formed nation in the South | Jefferson Davis
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| ruling from Taney's Supreme Court: slaves are property with no rights, not citizens | Dred Scott
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| led failed uprising on Harper's Ferry trying to start slave rebellion - after killing some folks in Kansas | John Brown
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| new nation, conceived in slavery and dedicated to the proposition that owning slaves is a right of all (white) citizens | Confederate States of America
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| act of formally withdrawing from Union | secession
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| this law overturned the Missouri Compromise by permitting slavery by choice in the new (northern) Western territories/states | Kansas-Nebraska Act
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