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Lesson 19
The Worlds of the North and South
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agrarian | person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests |
| cotton gin | a hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton |
| deforestation | the clearing away of forests |
| drastically | extreme or sudden |
| hostility | unfriendly or angry feelings or behavior |
| industrialist | person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry |
| Industrial Revolution | the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand |
| innovation | new idea, method, or invention |
| internal | inside or within |
| manually | using human effort, not electricity or other power |
| plantation | a large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers who lived on the land |
| push factor | an influence that drives someone away from a location |
| pull factor | an influence that draws someone to a new location |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin, which separates cotton seeds from the fiber |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | Brought textile mills to the U.S. that used water wheels for power, owned one of the first textile factories, hired women to work 12-15 hour days |
| Elias Howe | Invented the sewing machine during the Industrial Revolution |
| Cyrus McCormick | Invented the reaper, which was used to cut wheat, helped the Central Plains become known as America's "bread basket" |
| John Deere | Invented the steel-tipped plow, making plowing and planting much easier, helped the Central Plains become known as America's "bread basket" |
| National Road | first National Road, created in 1806 to connect the Eastern and Western states across the Appalachian Mountains |
| Robert Fulton | Invented the steamboat, which moved upstream against a river's current easily, changed river travel |
| Erie Canal | man-made river that connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River, first all-water link between the Central Plains and the East Coast |
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