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Chapter 11 Vocab
Samuel Slater | Definition |
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Industrial Revloution | In the late 18th century Britain factory machines began to replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
Factory System | |
Lowell Mills | Textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell Massachusetts founded in 1826 |
Interchangeable Parts | A part exactly like another part |
Robert Fulton | |
Samuel F. B. Morse | |
Eli Whitney | |
Cotton Gin | A machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and more efficiently than human workers |
Spirtuals | Religious folk song |
Nat Turner | |
Nationalism | A feeling of pride loyalty and protectiveness towards one country |
Henry Clay | |
American System | A plan introduced itself in 1815 to make the United states economically self sufficient |
Erie Canal | Compleated in 1825 this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo New York |
James Monroe | |
Sectionalism | The placing of the interests of ones own region ahead 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 |