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Social Studies vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| American System | Henry Clay's plan for raising tariffs to pay for internal improvements such as better roads and canals |
| Cumberland Road | first federal road project |
| Erie Canal | Canal that ran from Albany to Buffalo New York: completed in 1825 |
| Industrial Revolution | period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production |
| Textiles | cloth |
| Technology | tools used to produce goods or to do work |
| Interchangeable parts | each vital part that went into making the product would be made exactly the same |
| Mass Production | the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods, with greater success |
| Trade unions | organizations created by workers to improve working conditions |
| Strike | the refusal to work until employers meet union demands |
| Transportation Revolution | rapid growth in business across the country particularly by speed traveland |
| Clermont | Fulton's odd-looking vessel |
| Clipper ship | used many sails, used narrow hulls that sliced through the water |
| Telegraph | sent pulses of electric current through a wire |
| Morse code | Combinations of dots and dashes to create the alphabet |