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Chapter 11 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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a textile worker who ilegally left England and brought their secret to America | Samuel Slater |
time in history when factory machines replaced hand tools and large scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work | Industrial Revolution |
brought many workers and machines together under one roof | Factory System |
Textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts | Lowell Mills |
parts that are exactly alike | Interchangeable Parts |
invented a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind | Robert Fulton |
inventor of the telegraph | Samuel F.B. Morse |
invented the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
machine that produced a more efficient way to get the seeds out of cotton, and expanded southern development | Cotton Gin |
religious folk songs that expressed the slaves religious beliefs | Spirituals |
led the most famous slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 | Nat Turner |
loyalty to the interests of your nation | Nationalism |
a strong nationalist representitve from Kentucky | Henry Clay |
plan presented to Congress by President Madison, which would allow the United States to become economically independent | American system |
completed in 1825; created a water route between New York City and Buffalo, New York | Erie canal |
elected President of the United States during the era of good feeling; Democratic-Republican - had very little opposition | James Monroe |
loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country | Sectionalism |
Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820) | Missouri Compromise |
an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers | Monroe Doctrine |