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Chapter 11 Vocab.
Chapter 11 Vocab. EL
Question | Answer |
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An Englishman who sailed to the U.S. in 1789, bringing knowledge of British machines there. In 1790, he built his first spinning mill and water-powered textile mill. | Samuel Slater |
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work. | Industrial Revolution |
A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building. | Factory system |
Textile mills located in Lowell, Massachusetts, a factory town, founded in 1826. | Lowell mills |
Parts that are exactly alike. | Interchangeable parts |
Invented a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind and launched the Clermont on the Hudson River in 1807. | Robert Fulton |
Developed the telegraph in 1837. | Samuel F. B. Morse |
Invented the cotton gin in 1793 and demonstrated the use of interchangeable parts in 1801. | Eli Whitney |
A machine invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney that cleaned cotton far more efficiently than a human. | Cotton gin |
Religious folk songs | Spirituals |
He became literate at an early age and delivered powerful sermons to slaves. Led a famous rebellion in Virginia in 1831 after which he was caught, tried, and hanged. | Nat Turner |
A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country. | Nationalism |
A strong nationalist from Kentucky, he promoted the American System and proposed the Missouri Compromise. | Henry Clay |
An 1815 plan presented by James Madison to make the U.S. economically self-sufficient. Included the establishment a protective tariff, a national bank, and better transportation systems. | American System |
Completed in 1825, it created a water route between New York City and Buffalo, New York. | Erie Canal |
Democratic-Republican elected president in 1816 by large majority. During his term, the Federalist Party disappeared as feelings national unity and the federal government were strengthened. | James Monroe |
Loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole. | Sectionalism |
Passed in 1820, it admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banned slavery from the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36 30', Missouri's southern border. It kept the balance of power between slave states and free states. | Missouri Compromise |
A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in December 1823. | Monroe Doctrine |