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Chapter 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| industrial revolution | in the late 18th-century britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form for work |
| robert fulton | invented a steamboat that could move against the current or strong wind |
| samuel f.b. morse | invented the telegraph |
| lowell mills | textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 1826 |
| 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 |
| the american system (the 3 parts | a plan introduced in 1815 to make the United Stated economically self-sufficient 1.) national bank 2.) better transportation systems 3.) a protective tariff |
| erie canal | completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, New York |
| james monroe | Democratic-Republican who won the presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes |
| nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country |
| 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 docterine | a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere |
| era of good feelings | James Monroe was president and basically everything went right |
| cause of the monroe doctrine | Americans were worried about the british joining forces w/ spain and them over throwing the U.S.A. |