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Chapter 11 S.S.
Question | Answer |
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What was the Industrial Revolution? | in late 18th-century Britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
Who was Robert Fulton? | invented a steamboat that could move against the current or strong wind |
Who was Samuel F.B. Morse? | invented the telegraph |
What was the Lowell Mills? | textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 1826 |
Who was Eli Whitney? | invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793 |
What was the Cotton Gin? | a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers |
What was the 3 parts of The American System? | Establish a protective tariff,Establish a national bank, Improve the country's transportation systems |
What was the Erie Canal? | completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and BUffalo, New York |
Who was James Monroe? | Democratic-Republican who won the presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes |
What was Nationalism? | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country |
What was Sectionalism? | the placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole |
What was the Missouri Compromise? | a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
What was the Monroe Doctrine? | a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere |
What was the Era of Good Feelings? | a Boston newspaper |
What was the Cause of the Monroe Doctrine? |