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national growth
chapter eleven vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who was Samuel Slater? | an englishmen who sailed to U.S. under a false name. |
| what was the industrial revolution? | an period of time when machines replaced hand work. |
| what was the factory system? | a system that brought workers and machines together under one roof. |
| what was the Lowell mills? | an textile mill in the village that employed girls to work on mills. |
| what were the interchangeble parts? | parts that are exactly alike. |
| who was Robert Fulton? | a guy that invented the steamboat that a steamboat that could move agaist the current or a strong wind. |
| who was Samuel F.B. Morse? | the person who invented the telegraph that sent short pulses of electricity along a wire. |
| who was Eli Whitney? | a women who invented a machine for cleaning cotton. |
| what was the cotton gin? | an engine that made the cotton cleaning process more efficient. |
| what was the spirituals? | religious folk songs. |
| who was Nat Turner? | a slave rebelion led by Nat Turner. |
| what is Natioanalism? | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country. |
| who was Henry Clay? | representative from kentucky,was strongnationalist. |
| what was the American System? | a plan for foreing goods. |
| what is the Erie Canal? | a water route between new york city and Buffalo. |
| who was James Monroe? | a democratic-republican who won the presidency in 1816. |
| what is sectionalism? | is loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country. |
| what was the missoury compromise? | a compromisse that kept the balance of the in the power in the senate between the slave states and free states |
| what was Monroe Doctorine? | Monroe said that the americas were closed to further colonization. |