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Growth and Expansion
8th Grade Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| industrial revolution | a drastic change in the way goods were produced |
| American System | Henry Clay's plan to promote economic growth |
| canals | a channel dug by people and filled with watter to allow boats to cross a stretch of land |
| steamships | a boat or ship that is powered by water vapor |
| capitalist | people with money to invest in business to make a profit |
| cotton gin | a machine that separates cotton from its seeds |
| corduroy roads | roads that were made with logs to keep wagons from sinking into the mud; named for the cloth they resembled |
| turnpikes | gravel and stone roads that people could travel and would have to pay tolls |
| transportation revolution | a drastic change in the way people traveled |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Samuel Slater | an Englishman that memorized the design of the machines Britain was using in their mills |
| Lowell Girls | young women from farms that worked in the newly formed mills in Boston |
| child labor | the use of young kids and teenagers to work in factories |
| Monroe Doctrine | a document put in place by President Monroe; states that European countries should not colonize or interfere in Latin America |
| urbanization | the migration to and building up of cities |
| spinning jenny | a machine that let a worker spin several threads at once |
| Henry Clay | a Congressmen from Kentucky who represented the west; played instrumental part in policy during the industrial revolution |
| Daniel Webster | a Congressman from New Hampshire who represented the interests of New England and the North |
| John Calhoun | a Congressman from South Carolina who represented the interests of the south |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri wanted to enter the US as a slave state; Maine was created as a free stated to keep the balance of slave and free state representation in Congress. |
| Compromise of 1850 | California wanted to enter the US as a free state; Utah and New Mexico were created and the question of slavery was decided by popular sovereignty |
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