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Ch.11 vocab
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Question | Answer |
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Samuel Slater | A Englishman who sailed to the U.S. under a false name |
Industrial revolution | In late 18 century Britain factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
Lowell mills | it extile mills located in the factory town of lowell, mass., founded in 1826 |
Interchangeable parts | a part that is exactly like another part |
Robert Fulton | invented a steamboat that could move a stand the current or a strong wind |
Samuel F. B. Norse | first demonstrated his telegraph |
Eli Whitney | invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793 |
cotton gin | a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers |
Spirtuals | a religious folk song |
Nat Turner | led the most famous rebellion in Virginia in 1831 |
Nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness |
Hercy Clay | representative from Kentucky, was a strong nationalist |
American system | a plan introduced in 1815 to make the US ecohomically self-sufficient |
Erie Canal | completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, NY |
James Monroe | Democratic-Republican who won the presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes |
Sectionalism | the placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole |
Missouri Compromise | a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
Monroe Doctrine | a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823 |