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History
Chp 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Interchangeable parts | Whitney designed a gun that was made of standardized, identical, machine-manufactured parts. Highly affected industry. |
| Erie Canal | proved such a success that it had paid for itself in tolls in less than 10 years, from Albany to Lake Erie. |
| Prohibition | banning; they banned the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Transcendentalism | primarily the creation of writer & lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's an optimistic, man-centered faith. It denies the miraculous and puts man in the place of God. Emerson taught that man was good & ultimately perfectible. |
| Utopian | Utopian reformers sought to est. a small, perfect community that would serve as a model for the reform of society at large. |
| Patent | no one else could legally copy the inventor's work while they held a patent |
| Clipper ship | fastest sailing ship ever built; the steamship eventually advanced past it |
| Deism | the "faith of several American leads; they beleived that God created the universe, set it in motion, then stood back to allow it to work. |
| Millerite | Miller set a date for Christ's return, rumors said Millerites dressed in white "ascension robes" and waited on top of barns for the great return |
| Telegraph | invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, Congress allowed for $30,000 for constructing a model telegraph system |
| Cotton gin | a machine containing a series of metal teeth mounted on rollers which separated the cotton from the troublesome seeds |
| Abolitionism | the most controversial reform movement during the first half of the 19th century, the movement to eliminate slavery |
| Circuit Riding | created by Francis Asbury, he divided the land into circuits and a "circuit rider" would travel on horseback to each settlement, ministering to Christians and preaching to the lost |
| Mormonism | founded by Joseph Smith, they teach that salvation rests on good works and one may eventually become a god, based off the book of mormon |
| Railroad | the first economically successful railroad was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
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